Lincolnshire novelist keeps writing until the Bitter End
Added: (Mon Sep 26 2022)
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Lincolnshire’s crime-cracking Inga Larsson has left Sherlock Holmes in her wake – and has also just moved past Inspector Morse.
The Scandinavian Detective Inspector has just solved her 14th case in the gripping Lincolnshire Murder Mystery series.
With Holmes having called it a day after only four novels and five short story collections, and even Morse only making it to his 13th Colin Dexter book, she is outlasting and outsolving them all.
Author Cary Smith shows no sign of slowing down either, as his latest offering, Bitter End, is another fast-paced, unpredictable thriller that has attracted further critical acclaim.
Reviewers have described the latest page-turner as ‘another honest mystery’, having a ‘great plot’, and being a ‘great delight’.
With so much experience on his side, Cary admits finding new ways of challenging his protagonist is proving difficult.
He said: “In Bitter End Inga Larsson is one of the first on the scene of the death of a local woman discovered at home in Lincoln by her ten-year-old daughter.
“The victim, Alyson Allsop, had taken out a series of injunctions in spiteful attempts to stop her ex-husband from having any contact with their daughter.
“Is murder by the husband too obvious, too simplistic?
“As if all that is not enough to contend with, it is pointed out to Larsson how the local media have suddenly highlighted the anniversary of the unsolved murder of disabled student Donna Steyning, strangled back in 2010.”
From an early age Cary has worked with words, cutting his teeth as a freelance journalist on his local paper while still a teenager, and earning 1d per word for his efforts.
Although he was to go on and become a successful pop group and leisure centre manager after working on Fleet Street, he continued to harbour a desire for writing fiction.
Inspired by thriller novelists such as Peter James, Val McDermind and Ian Rankin, Cary finally launched his own writing career after retiring from full-time work.
A stand along novel set in Scotland, A Shot of Snuff, proved an instant success.
And he’s never looked back, producing the first of his 14 Lincolnshire Murder Mystery novels – all featuring the alluring DI Larsson – in 2013.
Almost all the crime series, which have been described by critics as ‘riveting’, have reached Amazon’s top five.
For more information visit Amazon and search for Cary Smith, where the Kindle and paperback versions of Bitter End are available.
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