Written by Lorraine Mace
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Today I have not one, but two extracts for you! They could not be more different! The first is from a psychological thriller, and the second, a children's adventure story book.
To begin, I should like to welcome author Lorraine Mace to my blog. Lorraine's latest novel, Love Me Tender, (Book Five, DI Sterling Series) was published earlier this year, and is now on a blog tour organised by Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources.
Lorraine has kindly provided a short extract to whet your appetite.
To begin, I should like to welcome author Lorraine Mace to my blog. Lorraine's latest novel, Love Me Tender, (Book Five, DI Sterling Series) was published earlier this year, and is now on a blog tour organised by Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources.
Lorraine has kindly provided a short extract to whet your appetite.
The blurb:
Love Me TenderIF HE WANTS YOU . . . THERE'S NO ESCAPE.
A brutal murder . . .
Responding to a tip-off, newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Paolo Sterling arrives at an apartment block to find the dismembered body of a young woman. And with no indication of a break-in, all signs suggest the killer was known to her.
An abduction in plain sight . . .
Then the victim's friend is snatched with no witnesses and the unanswered questions mount up.
At the same time, Sterling's team are leading the surveillance of a local club, thought to be involved in a drug operation. But when one of his colleagues ends up in hospital close to death, Paolo begins to lose his grip.
A detective on the edge . . .
With the odds stacked against him, and time running out, can DCI Sterling uncover the truth before it's too late? Or will this case finally tip him over the edge?
Psychological Thriller
An extract from Love Me Tender by Lorraine Mace
The title of the novel comes from Boy’s image of true love. Here he is waiting for the one he believes to be his soulmate to come home. The only problem is that she doesn’t even know he exists.
Boy parked round the back of Sasha’s block, so that he could see her windows, and waited for the light to come on to show she’d come home from work.
“I know you’re the special one,” he whispered. He couldn’t bear it if Sasha let him down, but he’d come prepared, just in case.
As he waited, he ran through the way he hoped the evening would go. She’d be a little surprised to see him. That was to be expected. But once she realised how much he loved her, how much he was prepared to sacrifice to be with her, she’d fall into his arms and be prepared to live with him and take Grammy’s place at the heart of his home.
He smiled, picturing their life together. She’d have to give up work. No partner of his was going to slave outside the home and be too tired to be a proper wife. No, she’d be happy to stay in the house, making nice meals and keeping the place perfect. That’s the way Grammy and Grandpa had raised him. A woman should be ready to please her man whenever he needed her.
Not that he’d had a chance to tell Sasha how he felt. Not yet. Tonight all that was going to change. Tonight they’d finally be together. He’d thought for a while that she might not be the one, but last week she’d given him the signal he’d been waiting for. He’d planned to come over on Saturday, but she hadn’t answered her phone when he called. Angry bile rose in his throat. Where had she been? Why hadn’t she been home when he needed her? Bitch! But he’d forgive her this time. It wasn’t her fault she hadn’t been trained.
| Author Bio – Lorraine Mace |
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 Born and raised in South East London, Lorraine lived and worked in South Africa, on the Island of Gozo and in France before settling on the Costa del Sol in Spain. She lives with her partner in a traditional Spanish village inland from the coast and enjoys sampling the regional dishes and ever-changing tapas in the local bars. Her knowledge of Spanish is expanding. To stop her waistline from doing the same, she runs five times a week. Author of the D.I. Sterling series of novels, Lorraine has been engaged in many writing-related activities. A columnist for Writing Magazine, she has recently stepped down from writing two columns for Writers’ Forum and also her role as head judge of the magazine’s monthly fiction competitions in order to concentrate on her own writing. She is currently writing two standalone psychological thrillers for Headline Accent. She also runs her own private critique and author mentoring service. |
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