****Shortlisted for the 2022 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, the 2022 Davitt Award for Best Crime Books by Australian Women and the People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award.****Evie Howland has problems.Guns. Bombs. Murderers.And that's just on the page...In real life she's meant to be planning a wedding to adorable billionaire Daniel Bradley, but Evie is seriously snarled in the sixteenth book of her successful crime series.
In fact, her protagonists are becoming almost impossible to wrangle: NYPD detective Carolyn Harding is volatile after a messy divorce, and Detective Jay Ryan has that heated look in his blue eyes again. They're both sick of being written. And frankly they're getting a little...physical.
Evie is beginning to wonder if she's ever going to finish Book Sixteen and get them back into fiction where they belong.But when a disturbingly familiar homicide surfaces in the city papers, it seems as if other, darker characters might have crossed the fiction-frontier too. In which case, Evie is in a lot of real-life trouble.If she's going to survive it, Evie must face her own worst fears, and learn that real love can be the best way of writing her own story.But can she change the ending? ****Full of high-octane adventure and dry humour, this novel is perfect for readers who love their crime stories set in a world that bends the rules.If Stephanie Plum was a crime author, or Jack Reacher was a romcom...This book has:⭐️ Magical Realism - the FMC can see her characters while she's writing them⭐️ Good guys + Bad guys - NYPD Detectives + Serial Killer⭐️ Friends to Lovers⭐️ Slow Burn - little to no spice⭐️ HEA****"Such an original and absorbing novel that will surely be spoken of highly in the fiction world. A wonderful debut; an absolute pleasure to read."—City Hub Sydney"‘Crime Writer’ is a thrilling, more-ish novel…I devoured this story in two days."—Others Magazine"A breathlessly fast paced book...terrifically written with great quotes scattered throughout...An excellent read."—Sydney Arts Guide"Dime Sheppard’s story is equal parts detective thriller and meta giggle-fest...impeccably literary; beautifully written and self-aware.
I’ve never read anything like it. This is an extraordinarily good and challenging debut."—3D Radio"This novel was a refreshing change that kept me guessing from start to finish."—1079Life Radio"‘Crime Writer’ will…explode away the cobwebs of other formulaic offerings and detonate a desire to play around in their world with a second reading."—Reviews By Judith"I couldn’t put it down!"—98Five FMFind full reviews at www.dimesheppard.com/reviews
