Good morning everyone, I hope you are all doing ok on the first day of lockdown? I have an interesting extract to share with you today from Bloodstock by Rod Humphris which is the fourth book in the Simon Ellice series.
Bloodstock is available in ebook and paperback now. You can order you copy using the link below or why not visit your local indie bookstore.
Book Synopsis:
After what feels like a lifetime of mayhem, Simon Ellice returns to the Hampshire village where he grew up. He enjoys the solace and tranquility of rural life, working on a farm and getting to know the lively locals, but suddenly Si walks right into a deadly mystery. Old friends are going missing and then turning up dead. Someone from the City is spreading their evil tentacles and Si dives into London’s underworld to uncover a conspiracy of poisoning, murder and pagan ritual that threatens those closest to him. Written with Humphris’ razor-sharp style, this is Simon Ellice’s darkest and most challenging adventure yet, touching on themes of sacrifice and objectification, that threaten the very foundations of our civilised world.
Extract:
AN INEXPENSIVE WOMAN
I saw her and wanted her. What can I say; I’m a man, and it had been a while. She was leaning on the rail, looking across the waterat Polly, and I was certain she was alone. I went over to her and said, “She looks like a swan in the company of pigs, doesn’t she?” Iwas the best I could think of at the time.
“She?” she said, in a Russian accent. She didn’t move her head, but kept right on looking at Polly.“All boats are female,” I said.
“Boat go anywhere,” she said.
“You can. From shore to shining shore. She has swum the coral main and braced the foaming seas of faery lands forlorn.”“Boat yours?” She turned to me now. Her face was lovely in that pale, high cheek-boned way. Her widely spaced eyes were asblue, in their heavily shadowed orbits, as the winter skies over the caucasus. Or so it seemed to me.
Ooh sounds intriguing doesn’t it, I’m definitely going to read more!
About The Author:
Rod Humphris is the author of a number of acclaimed thrillers. He is the
happiest and most productive when travelling about in his battered old
truck with a canoe in top and a dog in the back. He currently lives in Bath.
Rod Humphris is the winner of N. N. Light Best Fiction Award 2016
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