Book: The Luck of the Draw
Author: Kate Darroch
Genre: Humorous British Detective Story
Release Date: August 9, 2024
Hunt’s back in court – as the defendant! Why is our suave hero in hot water? Can his friend and colleague Genie-Penny save him yet again? Will she want to? Or is Hunt playing a deep double game? Find out in The Luck of the Draw.
Book Excerpt
My use of her real name signals that the fun and games are over.
She puts her teacup down on its saucer, carefully, and swivels in my direction. She even stops typing. Whatever this is about, it’s serious.
“Sir NAME has an assignment for you, Hunt.”
Gina sees that I have opened my mouth to refuse, and hurries on, “Don’t bother saying that you won’t do it, Hunt. You know you’ll do whatever John asks you to do.”
Ask? John never asked me to do anything in his life. He orders, and I obey. Like everyone else in the known universe.
“So quit playing around.”
Gina turns back to her screen and starts typing again.
I could demur, but I won’t. Because she’s right. The reason I’m back in the IT department is that John came to Upper Shrewsbury for the express purpose of hauling me out of my local, The Bird in Nest (where I had been quietly enjoying a G&T when he appeared) and putting me to work. Nobody says ‘No’ to John. Not if they want to keep the use of their fingers.
Our Operations Controller rushes on, “It’s two weeks in Las Vegas, Hunt. Well, maybe a bit longer. You know you’ll have a wonderful time there.”
All Excerpts:
Excerpt One: https://www.artistwriterandstudentohmy.com/posts/the-luck-of-the-draw-epic-book-launch/
Excerpt Three: https://lakesidelivingsite.wordpress.com/2024/07/16/the-luck-of-the-draw-epic-book-launch/
About the Author
Author: Kate Darroch
Genre: Humorous British Detective Story
Release Date: August 9, 2024
Hunt’s back in court – as the defendant! Why is our suave hero in hot water? Can his friend and colleague Genie-Penny save him yet again? Will she want to? Or is Hunt playing a deep double game? Find out in The Luck of the Draw.
Book Excerpt
My use of her real name signals that the fun and games are over.
She puts her teacup down on its saucer, carefully, and swivels in my direction. She even stops typing. Whatever this is about, it’s serious.
“Sir NAME has an assignment for you, Hunt.”
Gina sees that I have opened my mouth to refuse, and hurries on, “Don’t bother saying that you won’t do it, Hunt. You know you’ll do whatever John asks you to do.”
Ask? John never asked me to do anything in his life. He orders, and I obey. Like everyone else in the known universe.
“So quit playing around.”
Gina turns back to her screen and starts typing again.
I could demur, but I won’t. Because she’s right. The reason I’m back in the IT department is that John came to Upper Shrewsbury for the express purpose of hauling me out of my local, The Bird in Nest (where I had been quietly enjoying a G&T when he appeared) and putting me to work. Nobody says ‘No’ to John. Not if they want to keep the use of their fingers.
Our Operations Controller rushes on, “It’s two weeks in Las Vegas, Hunt. Well, maybe a bit longer. You know you’ll have a wonderful time there.”
All Excerpts:
Excerpt One: https://www.artistwriterandstudentohmy.com/posts/the-luck-of-the-draw-epic-book-launch/
Excerpt Three: https://lakesidelivingsite.wordpress.com/2024/07/16/the-luck-of-the-draw-epic-book-launch/
About the Author
Twice Indie Spotlighted by Publishers Weekly; the 2022 and 2024 winner of the Incipere Award for Christian Fiction, 2022 winner of the Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, and of many mystery book awards, Kate hopes that her readers will enjoy her MÃ iri Maguire Cozy Mysteries.
Kate also writes Sweets by The Sea, a series of Second Chance for Lasting Love novels that combine the themes of forgiveness, redemption and recovery, set in sleepy Welcombe Bay on the gorgeous Devon coastline. Kate’s readers say these love stories are even sweeter than her Cozies. Thanksgiving in Welcombe Bay, the first book in the series, took First Place in the 2024 Incipere Awards for Christian Fiction and Clean Women’s Fiction; and in the Pencraft Christian Fiction Awards.
Yet it is when writing the Huntingdon Hart Investigates series that Kate has the most fun. Hunt’s story has not been accorded any accolades, but he takes that in his stride – a prophet is never appreciated at home. Although, as Hunt modestly points out, he’s not a prophet, just a genius! A smidgin of prescience, together with skills honed by his earlier service in MI5 and MI6, make Hunt a force to be reckoned with. But not in the eyes of his beloved, the divine Sophia, twenty years his senior and younger than spring, who refuses to take Hunt’s pursuit of her seriously.
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