SYNOPSIS:
What if someone you accidentally killed came back to haunt you?
When the perfect crime results in the kidnap and murder of Megan, his only child, East End villain Mickey Speight is grief stricken. But now, nearly thirty years later, Megan sends a message to her father, gone-to-ground in present-day Margate.
As the messages from his dead daughter keep coming, Mickey teams up with a young American female therapist to discover whether this really is a voice from beyond the grave, or if somebody has loomed out of Mickey s past wanting revenge. Someone is fingering Mickey's collar and Mickey doesn't like it.
Mickey realises that he must haunt the old East End boozers, betting shops and strip clubs of his youth if he's to find out what really happened to his daughter.
DEAD ALREADY is a psychological thriller that splices the ever- popular East End gangster genre with a ghost story; a cross between revenge thriller YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE and supernatural horror DON T LOOK NOW.
MY THOUGHTS: I really enjoyed this book. This well written story of what happens to an ageing and somewhat reformed rogue caught me from the two line preface.
Micky Speight seemed so real. I could visualise this old villain, hear his East London accent through Tim Adler’s characterisation of him. There were several candidates written in that could have reason to cause great harm to Micky but for the life of me I didn’t see the twist coming. Adler’s red herrings kept coming, all were so well contrived and very convincing.
What I loved about this novel was there was no waffling on. Adler kept a smooth and even pace right to the end. I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommend for anyone longing for an intriguing, fast pace novel that will keep you guessing until the bitter end.
Many thanks to Emma at Damppebbles blog tours for inviting me to join the tour and to Caffeine Nights Publishing for my gifted copy. I will very much look forward to reading more from Tim Adler.
AUTHOR:
Tim Adler is a journalist and former commissioning editor on the Daily Telegraph, who has also written for the Financial Times and The Times.
His debut self-published thriller Slow Bleed went to number one in the US Amazon Kindle psychological thriller chart. Its follow-up Surrogate stayed in the top 40 psychological thrillers for more than a year. Bestselling crime author Peter James said of Tim's third novel Hold Still, "Adler's engaging style and sharp pace kept me glued".
The Sunday Times called Tim's most recent nonfiction book The House of Redgrave "compulsively readable" while The Mail On Sunday called it "dazzling". Tim's previous book Hollywood and the Mob was Book of the Week in The Mail On Sunday and Critic's Choice in the Daily Mail.
Tim is a former London Editor of Deadline Hollywood, the US entertainment news website.
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