My Friend Andrew has a Book Out.

Out Today

The Run Out Grove

by Andrew Cartmel

His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock band of the 1960s, who hanged herself in mysterious circumstances after the boy’s abduction.

Along the way, the Vinyl Detective finds himself marked for death, at the wrong end of a shotgun, and unknowingly dosed with LSD as a prelude to being burned alive. And then there’s the grave robbing…

 Now personally I just think that Andrew's vinyl detective gets better and better with every book. Why don't you have a look for yourself.

Publishers page here.

Written in Dead Wax by Andrew Cartmel

WARNING: SHAMELESS PLUG

Andrew Cartmel is one of my closest friends and gave me first writing job and has a book out tomorrow.

Now I actually read each chapter as it was written and by the end I had to taken to calling Andrew and begging him to get a move on. 

So despite the fact that this is a friend and a colleague I want to say - this is a really good book and you might want to give it a whirl.

I particularly like Tinkler's coma, the cats, the Aryan assassins and the high quality red herrings that will have you second guessing the resolution until the last chapter.

 

BLURB FROM THE PUBLISHER

He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detective” and some people take this more literally than others.

Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording — on behalf of an extremely wealthy (and rather sinister) shadowy client. 

Given that he’s just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets our hero’s full attention. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all…

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Andrew Cartmel is a Sound Fellow

Also the best script editor I've ever worked with, writer of comic plays (my favourite kind), has lent me money when I was skint and is soon to be a famous overnight success.

He also has a new blog at this address.