Murder In Maspalomas 2 - the wait is coming to an end!

Murder in Maspalomas is a crime fiction story about an Irish couple that get involved with a drugs gang who are chasing them for the debt, owed by one of their friends. They flee Dublin and end up in Maspalomas in the Canary Islands.

I'm sure you had the same thing happen to you in the past. Well, I wrote this book back in 2017 and I've been put under serious pressure by some of my readers to write a follow-up book and see what happened to the characters after this first book ended. There were a few loose ends that needed tieing up if you follow my drift.

So I am pleased to say that very soon I will start writing the follow-up.

If you fancy a page-turning, amusing, exciting summer read then look no further this book will deliver. There is never a dull page, never pages lost on descriptive prose, never wasteful dialogue or pointless action. This book tells the story at pace and delivers characters you'll love and hate in equal measure.

Look inside if you don't believe me!

Pick up a copy before it reverts to full price !!

Murder In Maspalomas - online purchases
Click here for the UK Kindle version
Click here for the US Kindle version
Click here for the UK Paperback version
Click here for the US Paperback version

Read the book chapter by chapter free on Wattpad

Publishing reality

Murder in Maspalomas - out now

The reality of publishing my own novel only hit home when I answered the door to a courier. I opened the labelled box and there it was. A large brown cardboard box of books, my books, 50 of them, each 325 pages long, bar coded, ISBN numbered and in pristine condition. In the coming days I’ll be visiting local towns and their book shops and I believe I can place a few copies in each. Right now I’m learning what self publishing is all about.

“Murder in Maspalomas” is published online now as follows:
Kindle have it

Amazon.com have it in paperback

Amazon.co.uk have it too! in paperback

Smashwords have it and the formats available are epub, mobi (Kindle),  pdf,  lrf,  pdb, txt , Online Reader , original document.

• OverDrive
• Kobo 
• Barnes & Noble

Do take advantage of the Smashwords coupon offer for July and get reading this murder story for a mere $2.99 using the coupon. To avail of this special offer please enter the coupon code RE39R prior to completing the checkout. Click here to purchase

Beautiful Maspalomas Gran Canaria

The island of Gran Canaria had a population of 847,000 in 2015 and is the second most populated island in the Canary Islands.

Of course the resident island population is boosted by tourists, 3.5 million of them, who arrive throughout the year in search of sunshine. The winter months (October – March) are busy with largely pensioner and older adults visiting the island. The summer season (April – September) is however open season for all ages and its then that the police force is stretched to its limits.

Follow the islands Serous Crime Unit as they react to an Irish drugs gangs arrival on the island. “Murder in Maspalomas" is in a sale so for one month only it’s available at $2.99 at Smashwords website and can be purchased in numerous formats ( epub, mobi(Kindle), Irf, Online Reader and pdb. 

Sonnerland Fun Fair

Puerto de Mogán

Maspalomas

You can “Look Inside” the book and read up to 15% of the content.

Good reviews received. Its a perfect light Summer holiday read!

Murder in Maspalomas - meet the characters

Murder in Maspalomas is a crime fiction novel which starts in Dublin where Matt, an ordinary contract accountant finds himself contacted by the Sullivans, a notorious drug gang who are chasing a debt.

The gang are led by Anto, a thirty something who came from a broken family, he broke it. His enforcer, Ciaran is his second in command and a right nasty piece of work who carries a piece wherever he goes. Rocky, in his early twenties wants to be Ciaran and wants to get tooled up. He carries some menace, is unpredictable and is watching and waiting his moment to slip into Ciaran's shoes. Frisby is the teenage runner for the gang. He carries drugs, messages and weapons without question. He's street wise but has a lot to learn about life. This trip will test his mettle and prove his worth to the gang.

Matt is married to Louise and together they ordinarily live in West Dublin in an apartment block on the fourth floor and life is the normal type of living, days at work and bills to pay. Once the drugs gang trace his whereabouts and seek a sum of money Matt hasn't got things get hot in Dublin and force Matt into skipping the country. Trouble is, Louise is totally unaware of the gang and the debt. Matt will get round to telling her but just not now. She believes she's just going on a holiday brought about by her incessant moaning about Irish winters. How wrong could she be?

Other characters enter the fray throughout the book and Fran, Anto's girl and Rodriquez's an old pal of Matt's play pivotal roles in the story as it develops. You'll just have to read the book to find out who does what to whom and who lives and who dies.

Maspalomas Hotel sun loungers in February

Murder in Maspalomas - now in Barnes & Noble, Kobo,

Murder in Maspalomas, my first crime novel has now been granted a wider distribution and is available in the following stores and websites by just following the links:

• OverDrive

• Kobo 

• Barnes & Noble 

It's also available in iBook format

Take advantage of the coupon offer for July only and buy this entertaining murder mystery story for a mere $2.99 using the coupon. To avail of this special offer please enter the coupon code RE39R prior to completing the checkout. Click here to purchase

Murder in Maspalomas- July Sale

It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. This can mean only one thing: It’s time for the 9th annual Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale!

The sale kicked off last Saturday July 1 and runs through to an end of day July 31. I’ve agreed to include “Murder in Maspalomas“ in the sale so for one month only it’s available at $2.99 at Smashwords website and can be purchased in numerous formats ( epub, mobi(Kindle), Irf, Online Reader and pdb.

You can “Look Inside” the book and read up to 15% of the content.

Good reviews received. Its a perfect light Summer holiday read!

Murder in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria - 7 days to book launch

This crime novel starts in Dublin but swiftly moves to the sun drenched island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands,autonomous community of Spain located on the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco. 

In fact most of the books action occurs in Maspalomas where the drugs gang have 3 days in which to find their quarry and recover the money. 

Tension mounts as the hours and days tick by and no one is found. Will they find Matt and will he cough up the cash or will he end up being the "murder in Maspalomas"? The clock is ticking......

7 Days to the book launch on Friday 30th June 2017.......

Maspalomas ancient lighthouse

Flowers growing wild in the town 

Bungalow Complex 

Maspalomas Dunes that roll up to the beach

7 Days to the book launch on Friday 30th June 2017.......

Murder in Maspalomas – 10 days to go

This Irish crime murder mystery novel starts in a wet and cold Dublin, Ireland in February. It picks up on events that changed Matts life in the previous December when he’d make the mistake of getting involved in a business deal with an old childhood pal.

Matt was just an ordinary guy, slogging along through life working contracts 9 – 5. Declan his old pal was a diametrically  opposite personality who lived life in the quick lane, liked the quick buck and had a gambling habit. Really if Matt had done the right thing I wouldn’t have a story to tell. But Matt, despite knowing Declan as he did still gave in and got involved in a deal that led to murder in the Canary Islands.

Money, the root of all evil, you better believe it!

It’s 10 days to the release date and I’m pretty excited about the book. You’ll find it on Amazon and Smashwords who also feed into Apple books and Barnes &Nobles book stores.  Click here to read and buy my earlier books.

Murder in Maspalomas

New fiction crime murder mystery book due out on 30th June 2017 on Amazon and Smashwords and in all formats.