Good morning everyone I’m excited to be on the blog tour for Retriever Of Souls by Lorraine Mace today and I have a great extract to share with you all.
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Before I share my extract with you here is a little bit about the book.
Book Synopsis:
‘Gritty and gripping’ – Colette McCormick, author ofRibbons in Her Hair.
The first title in a dark and gritty crime series.
Brought up believing that sex is the devil’s work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victim’s souls. Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on the rightful path to redemption.
Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is out to stop him, but Paolo has problems of his own. Hunting down the killer as the death toll rises, the lines soon blur between Paolo’s personal and professional lives.
Extract:
Background info: D.I. Paolo Sterling is exhausted and in desperate need of sleep. His phone keeps ringing and he can see from the display it is his ex-wife. He switches the phone off and falls asleep.
He woke up to a furious hammering on his door and wondered where the hell he was. Barely awake, he staggered to the door and opened it. Lydia pushed her way in.
“This place is a tip. Don’t you ever tidy up?”
Paolo peered at his watch. “Yep, good idea. Tell you what, I’ll do that tomorrow, but right now I’d rather know what the hell you mean by waking me up. It’s gone eleven!”
“Since when do you go to bed this early? Besides, you’re still dressed, so it’s as well I woke you.”
“And now that you have, why are you here? Sorry, sit down. I’ll just move that stuff,” he said, pointing to a battered armchair hiding under a heap of papers and clothes. “If it’s about Katy’s row with Father Gregory, don’t worry about it. I promised Katy I’d go and smooth things over tomorrow.”
Lydia crossed to the armchair, but stopped at Paolo’s words. She looked at him, eyebrows almost disappearing into her hairline.
“You think you can smooth this over? You must be joking.”
“No, why would I joke about that? I know Katy was in the wrong for yelling at Father Gregory in front of the class, but I bet you’ve already dished out masses of punishment. Where is she, by the way?”
“She’s at home. In her room in disgrace. I called my sister and she came over to stay with Katy until I get back. If you’d answered your phone I wouldn’t have needed to make the trip, would I?”
Paolo sat down at the tiny kitchen table’s only chair and faced Lydia. “Okay, I should have answered the phone, but I was tired, Lydia, and needed some sleep. We could have dealt with this tomorrow.”
“No, we have to deal with it now.” She stopped speaking as a look of understanding swept across her face. “Katy didn’t tell you, did she?”
“Tell me what?”
“What she actually said to Father Gregory. No way would you be so calm about it if she’d told you the truth. I had to force it out of her, but I assumed she’d at least been honest with you.”
“Lydia, just get to the point, will you. Stop being so bloody dramatic.”
She laughed. “You think I’m being dramatic? Katy has me beat hands down in the drama stakes. She said, in front of her entire class no less, that Father Gregory was a sexual pervert and probably the person the newspapers are featuring in their lurid headlines. In short, dear Paolo, your daughter accused a priest of being the murderer of those dead prostitutes.” She smiled, but there was no humour in it. “Still think you can smooth it all over tomorrow?”
About The Author:
When not working on her crime novels, Lorraine Mace is engaged in many writing-related activities. She is a columnist for both Writing Magazine and Writers’ Forumand is head judge for the Writers’ Forum monthly fiction competitions.
A tutor for Writers Bureau, she also runs her own private critique and author mentoring service. She is co-author, with Maureen Vincent-Northam, of The Writer’s ABC Checklist. Other books include children’s novel Vlad The Inhaler – Hero in the Making, and Notes From The Margin,a compilation of her Writing Magazine humour column.
Find her at:
Website: http://www.lorrainemace.com
Blog: thewritersabcchecklist.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lomace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lorraine.mace.52
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