Thank you so much for letting me showcase
my forthcoming steamy action-romance novel SHANNON’S LAW. It’s the second in my PASSION PATROL series -
stories where sassy female cops lock up the criminals and always get their man.
February marks the start of my “Pinterest
Reveal Virtual Book Tour” in the run-up to the launch on the 28th
February 2014.
Every day there are feature posts on topics
relating to SHANNON’S LAW on blogs all around the world. They’re all linked together on one big Pinterest
Board. Each post replaces a ‘mystery’ silhouette that was posted in
January. I saved all my notes and photos
as I was writing, on a private Pinterest Board and now I can share them with
you.
Today’s subject is: Forensics
In writing
Shannon's Law I had to do a lot of research. Although police
scenes of crime procedures form the subject of several TV shows, they tend to
focus on the exciting and juicy bits. When a body is found in a ditch, Shannon
is the first police officer on the scene. Her first concern is to preserve all
possible evidence. This is a job for a cop with a reel of tape. Only in fiction
do detectives check pockets and deduce in seconds that the murderer was a left
handed man with a spaniel dog.
A random body with no identity represents a
tough case for police. Most murders are committed by someone already close to
the victim. A difficult case may call for the Sherlock Holmes approach. A
couple of days ago I watched an episode of the latest incarnation of the great
man from 2010. The episode was entitled “A Study In Pink”. Because of his
superior mind, Sherlock was allowed to attend the corpses of victims wearing his normal clothes with his
longish hair dangling over the scene. My poor ex cop partner was having a
fit! I love Sherlock – although this
model seems a shade too rude and arrogant to me. Certainly his personality
plays to the geek gallery with a belief that everything in life has a technical
solution. Please Sherlock – don't contaminate the crime scene with your genius
level skin cells, saliva droplets and hair fibers.
In reality police scenes of crime work is
thorough and determined. Painstaking fingertip searching of a hectare of grassland
is not for the swashbuckler. In Shannon's Law there is a big problem for our heroine village cop. She has old
fashioned intuition and needs to get a sample from a suspect address. She could
just knock the door and ask for one. The criminals inside would just love to
know what she was thinking. She has to let things run and get a sample for DNA
testing by going outlaw. She runs risks but then needs expert help. It was time
to phone a friend and ask him to run the same risk.
“You understand that forensic samples
are subject to strict procedures. There must be no risk of contamination. The
evidence has to have continuity and police statements to prove its origin.”
“I do know that.”
“So, you can’t gain this evidence
properly?”
“Not without alerting some serious
villains that I’m interested in them. I think they’re involved with the dead
girl. They’re also up to their neck in drugs. I have zero evidence and even if
I did and we steamed in, we’d lose the chance to scoop them for the big
picture.”
The professor nodded seriously.
“I’m going to trust you
totally......
Book Blurb
Wild child
inner-city cop Shannon Aguerri walks a dangerous line between her methods and
justice. When the bosses lose their nerve, after yet another maverick mission,
she is transferred to green pastures to play out the role of a routine village
cop. When she encounters signs of slave and drug trafficking she homes in on
serious millionaire criminals.
As a loner she
has attracted men but nothing has stuck. When she meets Spencer, the hunky and
widowed Earl of Bloxington, there is an immediate rapport between them. Their
social differences mean nothing to their passion and need.
Already in the
mix is an upper class female rival – who has long plotted her way into the
Earl's bed. The jealousy is an evil shade of green and the anger is a violent
scarlet.
Often inhibited
by a sense of duty and honour, Spencer is slow to reveal his feelings. When
Shannon confronts him with the need to choose between her word and that of her
rival, he does not immediately support her.
All issues are
set aside, when they are forced together to carry out a desperate rescue
mission. Their love is stronger than everything ranged against them.
SHANNON’S LAW comes out on February 28th
2014 in print and digital formats for all e-readers.
Amazon
are offering some great discounts for pre-orders of the paperback version
You
can pre-order the digital version at a pre-launch special price from Nook,
Kobo, and iTunes. It will also be available in all digital formats on Smashwords
See
this post and others from my tour as they go live on Pinterest
or click the Goddess Fish panel below to visit the other blogs in the tour.
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Companion Cook-Book
In addition to SHANNON’S LAW, I’m launching
a companion digital cook-book with illustrated recipes for all the meals from
the novel.
It’s
called COP’S KTICHEN - Read the love
story and taste the romance!
To celebrate the launch of SHANNON’S LAW,
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Shannon’s
Law comes out in paperback and digital formats for all e-readers
on
February 28th 2014.
