Bill Kitson
Released 29th January 2010
How do
you solve a crime when there's no evidence one has been
committed? When Sarah Kelly fails to return from a night out,
DI Mike Nash can only speculate, until a chance remark causes
him to look deeper into other cases; girls who have vanished
without trace. Nash spots chilling similarities: no bodies, no
witnesses, all disappearances explained away.
While investigating seemingly
unconnected crimes, Nash strives to come to grips with the
psyche of a most unusual serial killer. He needs to find a
solution and fast as two more women vanish, making it personal
and potentially fatal; both for Nash and for the women who
have been chosen....
ISBN: 978-0-7090-8966-7
REVIEWS
The plot of this book is
disturbingly believable..... The police procedure
descriptions.....seem more like real life than the convenient
CSI view of investigations.... a good addition to the rich
wealth of British crime fiction."
http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Chosen.html
Amanda Brown. August 2010
‘Chosen...displays Bill's talent
for creating tightly-layered plots that move along at cracking
pace. In Mike Nash, he has created a complex, intriguing
character, a tortured soul and maverick detective who could
easily follow the well-trodden footprints of TV detectives
such as Jack Frost or Morse.’
Bradford Telegraph & Argus, May
2010
‘This
book was definitely scary. If you happen to read it at night
when you're alone, you might just find yourself looking over
your shoulder. You might want to make a point of sitting with
your back to the wall. It's a very emotional ride, very faced
paced and will keep you in it's grip until the end.....it was
a very enjoyable, suspenseful read and I'd love to read more
from this author.’
‘Psychiatrists say serial killers
actually want to get caught, so they can enjoy the limelight
of their own notoriety. This one’s different.’ These are the
words of Detective Inspector Mike Nash, a North Yorkshire
policeman so committed to solving his case that his sleep is
haunted by its victims.
On a routine Saturday morning at
Helmsdale police station, a woman comes in and reports that
her daughter has gone missing. A regular, decent girl, she
wouldn’t normally stay out beyond 3 a.m.
Soon there are sinister
discoveries. A handbag, found in a back alley. A conveniently
damaged street camera. Something bad has happened to Sarah
Kelly. The book’s title says it all – Sarah has been selected.
Enquiries proceed briskly, at the
engineering company where she worked, at a shady film club and
at a seedy pub where another violent crime has taken place.
With several suspects emerging from society’s sagging
underbelly, an anxious voice inside Nash’s head starts urging
him to re-examine previous unexplained disappearances.
Alarming similarities are thrown up, giving Nash a terrible
sense of urgency which transmits directly to the reader like a
hypodermic into a vein.
This believable and very human
detective stepped into the crime thriller arena, accompanied
by his CID colleagues Pearce and Mironova, in Bill Kitson’s
first book Depth of Despair, published last year. At his home
on the rugged Yorkshire coast, Mr Kitson sits at his desk and
thinks himself deep into the minds of his villains and
coppers. He sketches his characters so deftly and clearly that
you find yourself mentally casting them for TV.
His prose style is punchy, its
potency undiluted by anything that would slow the pace. He
makes his red herrings play their part in the drama – they are
not allowed to flounder uselessly in the net. And the
introduction of Jimmy Johnson, as nice a burglar as you could
ever meet, is a well-timed change in the tone of this very
dark novel.
Jenny Drewery, Scarborough Evening
News, February 2010
‘Inspector Nash is back in this
excellent yarn about a serial killer and the usual, but highly
enjoyable race against time. Bill Kitson has all the right
elements here for a cracking story, and he doesn't disappoint.
Nash is terrific - his legendary near-psychic powers are not
overplayed, and the whole thing romps along tremendously well.
A real winner.’
BOOKSMONTHLY online magazine,
February 2010
..To read a longer extract from Chosen, click on the book cover below..
