Twinkle Twinkle Little Lies- Rob Ashman-Crime
Malice and Pieterson are back! This time they have a cold case to investigate. A body who
has laid there for around ten years leads to a trail of intrigue. Meanwhile Twinkle helps
run an outreach project and a cafe at her local church for local boys not to be targeted
by local drug gangs and to keep them on the straight and narrow. Little does anyone know
this is a cover for her drugs operation running county lines. She is thinking of expanding
to the next parish and things are falling in line nicely when a rival gang wants in and she
calls them out on it. Malice, as ever, is in trouble with his ex about presents he keeps
buying for their daughter. Pieterson is getting some unwanted attention from someone
she put in court when she worked in undercover obs. The case fell through but they
suspect that she was instrumental in planting evidence, something she denies. I really
enjoy this series. (it will stand alone but why miss out on another excellent read?)
There is a magical quality not only of Rob’s writing but of Malice and Pieterson.
Malice is the rebel, the maverick. Pieterson (usually) his balancing arm. Both
tenacious in their work with a smile thrown in and characters you can’t help
but like.A brilliant read and I very much look forward to the next one.
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Book Description:
Twinkle twinkle, little lies,
How I see them in your eyes …
DS Khenan Malice believes his troubles are behind him. But it’s never that simple. This time … it’s personal.
Detective Kelly Pietersen has decided anti-corruption is not for her. But her previous life hunts her down, sending her world spiralling out of control.
Twinkle is a pillar of the community and an ambassador for the church. She is also a woman for whom lying is a way of life, wrapping those around her in a complex web of deceit. To her it’s a deadly game.
Their paths cross when a decomposed body is discovered.
The past and the present collide with shattering consequences, leaving the three of them fighting for survival.
Author Bio:
Rob is married to Karen with two grown up daughters. He is originally from South Wales and after moving around with work settled in North Lincolnshire where he’s spent the last twenty-two years.
Like all good welsh valley boys Rob worked for the National Coal Board after leaving school at sixteen and went to University at the tender age of twenty-three when the pit closures began to bite. Since then he’s worked in a variety of manufacturing and consulting roles both in the UK and abroad.
It took Rob twenty-four years to write his first book. He only became serious about writing it when his dad got cancer. It was an aggressive illness and Rob gave up work for three months to look after him and his mum. Writing Those That Remain became his coping mechanism. After he wrote the book his family encouraged him to continue, so not being one for half measures, Rob got himself made redundant, went self-employed so he could devote more time to writing and four years later the Mechanic Trilogy was the result.
Rob published Those That Remain, In Your Name and Pay the Penance with Bloodhound Books and has since written the DI Rosalind Kray series. These are Faceless, This Little Piggy, Suspended Retribution and Jaded which are also published by Bloodhound.
His latest work sees the introduction of a new set of characters – DS Khenan Malice and DC Kelly Pietersen. The first book in the series is titled Killing Pretties and the second is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Lies. Both books will be published this year.
When he is not writing, Rob is a frustrated chef with a liking for beer and prosecco, and is known for occasional outbreaks of dancing.
Website: http://robashman.com/
Twitter: @RobAshmanAuthor
Thanks as always for your support on the tours Nicki x
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