Chloe: Lost Girl by Dan Laughey - Book Tour
Chloe:
Lost Girl
A missing student. A
gunned-down detective. A woman in fear for her life. All three are connected
somehow.
Detective Inspector Carl
Sant and his fellow officers get on the case. But what links the disappearance
of a university student, the death of an off-duty police sergeant, and a
professor reluctant to help them solve the case?
Their only clue is a
sequence of numbers, etched by the police sergeant Dryden on a misty window
moments before he breathed his last. Soon it becomes clear that Dryden's clue
has brought the past and present into a head-on collision with the very heart
of Sant’s profession.
Racing against time, D.I.
Sant must find out what's behind the mysterious events - before the bodies
start piling up.
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Author Q&A
1. What is the first book that
made you cry?
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee.
2. How long, on average, does it
take you to write a book?
About six months to write it, and at
least six months to research and prepare it. No more than a year all told.
Optimism is my middle name, I should add.
3. How do you select the names of
your characters?
Quite randomly. Though realism plays
a part. For instance, it wouldn’t make sense to name an elderly English lady
Jordan or Cosima, or even Chloe for that matter (the internet is a great place
to research naming trends over the years). The main character I pen, Inspector
Carl Sant, took a bit of brainstorming to be honest. First I called him
Thackray, then Wade, then something else. Eventually I settled on Sant.
Monosyllabic, a hint of Spanish, more than a hint of Christmas. Perfect.
4. What creature do you consider
your "spirit animal" to be?
I was born in the Chinese Year of the
Dragon, so that’s good enough for me.
5. What are your top 5 favorite
movies?
The Truman Show, The Blues Brothers,
Chinatown, Rear Window, Kes.
6. If you were the last person on
Earth, what would you do?
Eat as much ice cream as possible
before it all melted.
7. What fictional character would
you want to be friends with in real life?
Not Harry Potter. He’s annoying.
Hermione is more my type. Oh, and Lew Archer. For those who’ve never heard of
him, Archer is probably the greatest ever private investigator. The Canadian
crime writer Ross Macdonald plucked him out of somewhere. A true hero.
8. Do you have any advice for
aspiring writers?
Read the best books by the best
writers. Learn how to write like them. Then have a go, and never give up.
9. What book do you wish you had
written?
The most profitable one. So that
would mean The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the crime fiction stakes. A modern-day classic. I’m also a big Jim
Thompson fan and would happily claim authorship of The Killer Inside Me and/or
Pop. 1280.
10. Tell us 10
fun facts about yourself! :) Can’t think up enough of them, sorry!
Author Bio
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Dan Laughey is a lecturer at Leeds
Beckett University where he teaches a course called ‘Youth, Crime and Culture’
among other things. He has written several books on the subject including Music and Youth Culture, based on his
PhD in Sociology at Salford University. He also holds a BA in English from
Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Communications Studies from the
University of Leeds.
Dan was born in Otley and bred in
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, a hop and a skip away from the Leeds setting of
his Chloe novels.
His crime writing was purely
academic to begin with. He’s written about media violence and tackled the
age-old concern about television and video games influencing patterns of
antisocial behaviour in society. After years of research and theoretical
scrutiny, he still hasn’t cracked that particular nut.
He’s also written about the role
of CCTV and surveillance in today’s Big Brother world, the sometimes fraught
relationship between rap and juvenile crime, football hooliganism, and the
sociocultural legacy of Britain’s most notorious serial killer – the Yorkshire
Ripper.
All in all, Dan’s work has been
translated into four languages: French, Hebrew, Korean and Turkish. He has
presented guest lectures at international conferences and appeared on BBC Radio
and ITV News in addition to providing expert commentary for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
Social
Media Links –
Twitter: @danlaughey – Facebook: fb.com/laughey
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