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Twenty Dollar Future
08.08.08
Maxim Jakubowski, a man of clearly impeccable taste, has selected my short TWENTY DOLLAR FUTURE for the next BEST BRITISH MYSTERIES anthology, which makes two in a row for the only two shorts I’ve ever written for cash.
The anthology should be out next year.
Upgrades
01.07.08
As you might be able to see, I’ve once again shifted the appearance of this place. Never really happy with the last look, so I think this is a better bet; at the moment, I’d certainly say I’m unlikely to do it again for a while.
Keep an eye out for developments content-wise - that ‘downloads’ link at the top will eventually lead somewhere and you might find it interesting.
That’s if it’s not all terribly broken, of course…
Books
A dozen people trapped in a roadhouse during a storm, three corpses buried in a field, and a good chance no one's going to make it through the night alive. Burial Ground is the last Alex Rourke novel.
One mistake. Seven years of a child's life. In The Darkness Inside, Alex finds out the missing kid in a case he worked on in his FBI days may not have been killed after all. And that the man he crossed the line to put away may not have worked alone.
A single bullet blows Alex's world to pieces. He finds himself in the strange Vermont town of Bleakwater Ridge trying to piece together what's happened, alone except for the dead and The Touch Of Ghosts.
A silent murder suspect, caught red-handed at the scene, draws former FBI agent Alex Rourke back to his home town of Winter's End in northern Maine. But it soon becomes clear that there's far more to the place, and to his own past, than he ever realised.
Short Fiction
Wish, featuring gay Nazis and the terror of living urban myth, appears in the Ken Bruen-edited Dublin Noir, as well as in 2008's Best British Mysteries anthology.
Twenty Dollar Future, about the tragic making of a child soldier in east Africa, appears in Jen Jordan's Expletive Deleted anthology.