TWO Coventry writers are set to release their new supernatural thriller and have announced book launches across the region.
Authors Ann Evans and Robert D. Tysall are preparing to sign copies of their novel, The Bitter End, at bookshops in Rugby, Kenilworth, Nuneaton and Coventry.
For Coventry writer, Ann, this is her 31st book.
She previously wrote romance and crime novels for young adults as well as stories for children.
For Rugby-born Robert, this is his debut novel.
The pair said they were overjoyed when, on the book’s launch day (July 4), it hit the number one spot in Psychic books on Amazon, number three in Ghosts and number five in Witches and Wizards.
“The Bitter End is quite a dark story which has provoked some very interesting reviews from readers,” says Ann, a former Coventry journalist, “it came as a real surprise – and a welcome relief, to learn how scary some readers are finding our book.”
Robert who now lives in Nuneaton with wife, Heather, adds: “We really didn’t know how this book would be received, but we’ve been blown away by the response.”
Ann has been working on the novel as part of her aim to write books for reluctant readers.
One of her previous children’s titles, The Beast, won the Raring2Read award in the Coventry Literary Festival 2013.
And last year her Rapid Read book, Keeper, came runner up in its category.
Another, The Prize, has just been shortlisted for the 2019 Coventry Literary Festival awards.
The Bitter End tells the story of Paul Christian who works as Head of Security at MI5.
He has no memories from before he was 10 years old. An accident left him in a coma for nine months.
But he begins to wonder whether it was an accident as dark things start to happen, and local people begin dying in horrific accidents.
Two book signing dates have been confirmed: Saturday August 11 at Hunt’s Book Shop, High Street, Rugby from 11am – 2pm; and Thursday September 13 at Kenilworth Books, Talisman Close, Kenilworth, from 6.30pm-8pm.
Two more signing events are being arranged at Waterstones Nuneaton and Coventry.
