Published by Mr E Entertainment
What a brilliant who has done it!
This will keep you guessing until the very end, every time you think you have worked it out it all falls apart. Love the characters, who are all crime writers and very intelligent but it still almost escapes them. The story of a dinner party and someone getting poisoned is a very old scenario but, this opens up to be a much better story with more deaths. With only a small amount of suspects, you would think you could work it out! I liked this as every page kept you turning for the next bit. This will be in my top ten for this year.
GS Revel Burroughs is an English Crime writer born circa 1971 and with the scars to prove it. He grew up in a field in South Warwickshire (okay, there were a few council houses there, which kept him dry) and was educated in a shed in the 70s. In the 80s he was given Warwickshire’s finest education in what was, in the middle of that fine decade, declared the worst Secondary School in the country, and was earmarked for closure. All the luxury, wealth and fame that was promised in the 80s evaporated as he left school, and life promptly decided it wanted nothing more to do with him. Finding this a mutually advantageous position, Gary retired from life and succumbed to his Dark Ages.
In the latter part of that decade, he found Hercule Poirot, as that fine actor David Suchet adopted those famous moustaches, and waddled across his television screen. So began a lifelong appreciation of Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of Crime Writing. These small pleasures heralded the beginning of the end of his Dark Ages and by the turn of the 20th Century Gary had endeavoured to return to life.
Having thus adopted writer’s block for 30 years, Gary finally wrote his first book, Scholes of the Yard, following the untimely passing of his mother. This was followed by his first piece of crime fiction, While You Were Out and then HMP BlackRock. These books can be found under his other name Gary Burroughs or GS Burroughs. The name Revel Burroughs was last used by his Grandfather who died in the 1930s. Gary has adopted this now because it is, historically, his surname, and because it separates his crime thrillers from his true love, mystery fiction. It also looks good on the cover of his book!
Gary’s goal is not to write popular fiction per se but to go back to the Golden Age of crime writing when writers pushed the boundaries and challenged the conventions.
His next book, which he is busy not planning, will be called Non-Compos Mentis, a book about sanity that will challenge your concept of reality, and hopefully blow you away… At its heart, a sneakily clever mystery that he guarantees you won’t see coming.
I am looking forward to the next book, Non-Compos Mentis!
