Please keep an eye out for this, due for release at the end of November.
This is the superb cover from Crooked Cat Publishing (UK) who are publishing my collection of short stories 'as told to me' by half-English half-Spanish private eye Leon Cazador.
All of the stories were previously published in a number of magazines and collected for release by Solstice with 21 stories; an extra 'day in the life' tale has been added for this brand new edition.
An extract from the Introduction:
In the middle of 2005, I received a
telephone call from a Spanish private investigator, Leon Cazador. He’d heard of
my efforts with a novel about a nun who used to be a cop and wanted me to write
up some of his cases in a similar vein in first person narrative. I’ve lost
count of the number of approaches I’ve had from people wanting me to ghost
write their autobiographies, it’s gratifying but any such venture entails many
months of intense work and distracts me from other planned projects. I was
inclined to turn down Señor Cazador until he said, “I thought you captured the
voice of Sister Rose perfectly. I feel you could do it for me, too.” Suitably
flattered, I arranged a meeting. I found that he was a fascinating raconteur
and more importantly, he had a good story—or rather stories—to tell. As a
result, I began writing Leon Cazador short stories, purportedly as fiction, all
of which seem to have been well received.
***
The world needs brave souls like Leon
Cazador who is not afraid to bring the ungodly to justice and so help, in his
own words, to hold back the encroaching night of unreason.
“My
allegiance is split because I’m half-English and half-Spanish,” he says. “Mother
had a whirlwind romance with a Spanish waiter but happily it didn’t end when
the holiday was over. The waiter pursued her to England and they were married.”
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