Salem
Salem was my first ever attempt at writing, a self-published book with a print run of 1,000 copies. I sold 350 copies when I published it back in 2004, and since then the remainder have lined my loft. After some persuasion, I had decided to sell them through this site, but unfortunately I have had my Paypal account hacked recently, as well as my Ebay account (did the hackers really think that I was going to pay for all the Blackberrys and Iphones that I had "won"?). As a result, I have decided that I am no longer dealing with Paypal. This means that no one else can get a copy of Salem through this site, although at least it means that you won't get an email that purports to be from me begging for a money transfer because I have been mugged at knifepoint in Sicily, as earlier buyers of Salem received.
If anyone feels that they cannot survive without a copy, The Colne Bookshop does have a small stock. They can be contacted through their website by clicking here
Salem was re-written to some extent as my third book with Avon, Last Rites, as we thought the story was too good to just languish in my loft. The two books are very similar, but also very different, with different locations, countries even, different characters, and the plot was significantly changed when it became Last Rites. Anyone who has read Last Rites, however, and goes on to read Salem will notice some major similarities in plotline and events. I don't want anyone to be misled.
So the plot:
Sarah Goode has gone missing in Boston. She is a long way from home and her parents want to find her. They hire Joe Kinsella, an English small-town private detective. Joe heads to the States hoping for a holiday, but he knows he has a problem. The police want to find her first, because when Sarah Goode went missing, her boyfriend was found in her bed, murdered.
Joe searches for Sarah Goode, but he turns up someone else as well, a killer hidden so deep in the shadows of Massachusetts that the police don't know he exists. And the more Joe looks, the worse it gets. But he has been hired to do a job and he's going to do it, no matter what the cost.
I am very proud of it, because it was such an important step in becoming a published author, despite the typos and grammatical errors that slipped through(I know it is I sat or I was sitting, not I was sat, but a northernism like that is something I hear all the time, and so didn't pick up on it). But hey, I did all the editing, so what do you expect?