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Cold Rain & Every Dark Place

Myrmidon Books

 

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                                                Cold Rain (2010) 

 

COLD RAIN HAS BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2011.  This award is given to the outstanding thriller published in the UK during the previous year.  For more information about this coveted prize please go to link: http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2011/steel.html

 

                                                          ‘Really well crafted. Intelligent, elliptical story-telling...’

                   Judges’ Comments when nominating for the Steel Dagger award.        

‘Cold Rain makes for an absolute gem of a surprise.  This is good solid, atmospheric writing piled with suspense and tension.’

crimefictionreader, reviewing for It’s a Crime (or a mystery...).

‘The plot twists and then twists again. Every time I thought I'd got hold of it, it sprang away .... it's the sort of lean writing that's hard to put down.’

Susan Magee, reviewing for Thebookbag.

 

Cold Rain: the thriller...

Cold Rain: the love story...

         

Every Dark Place (Coming in 2012)

         

A dark and terrifying crime becomes the unlikely catalyst for one man’s redemption and another’s ruin.

                                                  

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The Painted Messiah & The Blood Lance

Myrmidon Books

 

                                                           

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                                                            The Blood Lance (2008)

 

‘...a fast paced ride of love and revenge ... seamlessly mixing history, legend, and fiction .... Smith’s writing is both intelligent and exhilarating.’

          Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Historical Novels Review

                                                           


About the Novel

Excerpt from The Blood Lance

Heinrich Himmler and Rahn's Cathars

Hitler and the Occult

The Lance of Longinus

 

The Painted Messiah (2007)

 

‘Things were so tense that at several points I had to remind myself to breathe.’

                   Dove Grey Reader

 

‘...iconography will never be the same...’

                             L. J. Hurst, Shotsmag Reviews

 

About the book, with video link of author

First Press Release for the Painted Messiah

Excerpt from The Painted Messiah

The Painted Messiah, Genesis of an Idea

 Images of Lake Lucerne

Images of the Eiger

 

 

 

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The Whisper of Leaves, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002

 

ForeWord Magazine’s Bronze Winner for Mystery of the Year!

 

‘...laced with innuendo and nuance, shivers run down the reader’s spine...’

          Carolyne Van Der Meer, The Mystery Review

 

About The Whisper of Leaves  

Excerpt from The Whisper of Leaves

 

 

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Autobiographical sketch with video link of author

 

Online Reviews:

 

http://www.tribstar.com/valley_life/local_story_185184648.html?keyword=topstory

 

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