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The Killing Sense - In The News & Reviews

I'm totally thrilled that so many people have had such lovely things to say about The Killing Sense - there's now a gathering of reviews and press over at my website www.samblakebooks.com :)

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Perfume, Paris and a Serial Killer: The Killing Sense

My new thriller, 'The Killing Sense' began life as a picture in my head of a woman with red hair on a train - the Eurostar - heading to Paris...

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Three Little Birds in the News

Three Little Birds is getting incredible reader feedback and this week is in its 5th week in the Irish top 10! Here's some of the coverage to date, with links to watch back, although I wouldn't recommend taking my financial advice...!

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THREE LITTLE BIRDS By Sam Blake @CorvusBooks @samblakebooks #ThreeLittleBirds #BookReview

Available now / paperback / ebook / audiobook/ SYNOPSIS Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery…When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water’s edge.Together with…

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On the list of things ABSOLUTELY NOBODY HAS EVER ASKED ME FOR. Here’s the dialogue from the TV show that the Young family are watching in Episode 3, before Adam heads off for an early night.

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You live in a very haunted house, but it’s not that bad. The voices in the basement remind you of your laundry and tell you to check the boiler, the rat size talking spider keeps the pests away and is a pretty good therapist, and the victorian ghost children are great friends with your kids.

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Water    -   Margot Olde Loohuis

Dutch, b. 1973  -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 120 cm.

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The Discover Irish Children's Books Campaign

Irish children's books champion Sarah Webb has increasingly realised that the Irish children’s top ten bestseller list rarely features ANY Irish books. And she's created the Discover Irish Kids Books campaign to do something about it...

Award winning author and champion of Irish children’s books, Sarah Webb (to whom Something Terrible Happened Last Night is dedicated) has increasingly realised that the Irish children’s top ten bestseller list rarely features ANY Irish books. From March to the start of August 2023 – twenty weeks – only ten books by Irish children’s authors or illustrators charted in the top ten. There were 123…

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Water    -   Margot Olde Loohuis

Dutch, b. 1973  -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 120 cm.

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A No 1 bestseller, shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year and it's only 99p!!

Clickety click!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0997PD57Y/

Here's the blurb:

If she'd turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died...

When Cressida Howard catches her entrepreneur husband playing away from home, she hires security expert Brioni O'Brien to get the evidence she needs for a speedy and financially rewarding divorce.

But what Brioni uncovers goes beyond simple infidelity. Because Laurence Howard is also in bed with some very dangerous people. Bribery and blackmail are the least of his worries as someone comes after the women in his life - someone who is out to destroy Laurence and his empire, whatever the cost.

And Cressida and her teenage daughter could soon be collateral damage, if she and Brioni don't act fast...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0997PD57Y/

Huge thanks to Bedfordshire libraries for the image, I'll be in Dunstable and St. Albans libraries on 14th and 15th of June!

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Alone in the Amusement Park by Jeff Stanford 2023 inspired by Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) an American realist painter and printmaker.

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Eric Ravilious (UK 1903-1942) Beachy Head Lighthouse (Belle Tout)1939 pencil and watercolour 42.9 x 57 cm

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a quick word about the writers guild strike, for those of you who currently AREN'T guild members but would like to be one day: the WGA has always strongly enforced its right to ban from future membership any non-member who crosses the picket line and engages in scab writing, aka writing for any of the struck companies during the WGA strike.

so if you're seeing job openings for screenwriters at places like netflix, amazon, paramount, etc and you're thinking "hey, maybe i'll apply and get my foot in the door," just know that you WILL be scabbing and you WILL be barred from ever obtaining WGA membership. permanently.

learn more about the strike on the WGA contract site.