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Thanks. That looks interesting, and it's nice to see a backlist freebie that isn't exclusively on Amazon.
Well, for those of you who enjoyed the "squalid circus" literary historical coming-of-age novel upthread
, here's another from the same author.
Free from the small press re-publisher via KDP Select @
Amazon:
Crimson China by Betsy Tobin, a literary multicultural journey of self-discovery thriller with romantic elements involving organized crime, originally out from Short Books in 2010. This quotes a lot of blurb praise from UK newspapers.
On a freezing night in February, a woman wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to commit suicide. Braced for death, she finds herself instead saving a man’s life: a young Chinese cockle picker, one of the only survivors of a tragic mass drowning. For Wen – now missing, presumed dead – Angie provides an unexpected sanctuary. They share neither language nor experience, but she agrees to let him stay with her and ‘disappear’. Soon their unlikely pairing blossoms into something darkly passionate.
But Wen’s past soon catches up with him, for he is still in debt to the snakeheads who brought him out of China. Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a dangerous hidden world that runs in parallel to our own.