The Tower by Anne-Marie Ormsby - Book Tour & Review
The Tower by
Anne-Marie Ormsby
Potential Trigger Warning: self harm, domestic
violence
Sometimes the dead
come back. And sometimes all they want is to hurt you.
When residents on an
east London housing estate start dying in gruesome ways,
housing manager Ada
begins to worry that her past is coming back to haunt her.
Once a powerful
medium, able to talk to the dead with amazing ease,
she became more
comfortable with the afterlife than real life,
and with that
openness she attracted something dark from the other side.
Terrified by the
experience she swore she would never communicate with the dead again.
Ten years later at
the scene of an apparent suicide,
her long closed-down
connection to the dead is reopened,
and she begins to
receive information she shouldn’t know about the victims’ final moments.
Stalked in her dreams
and in waking life by an angry male presence,
Ada begins to relive
the dark days when something from the other side wanted her to end her life.
But as the bodies
stack up and the visions intensify,
Ada realises that in
order to stop more people from dying she has to let the dead back in
to find out the
truth of what is driving her residents to violent acts – and face up to
her own ghosts.
Purchase Links
Amazon US - https://amzn.to/3aLNZaA
My Review
Author Bio:
On a warm day in July
1978, a mother was admitted to hospital,
awaiting the arrival
of her new baby.
She was reading
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
and the midwives
thought it a gruesome choice
for an expectant
mother. A story of a long forgotten murder and repressed memories.
As it turned out her
new baby, Anne-Marie would grow up and find herself drawn
to all things
macabre, and would one day herself turn out a story of murder and memories
lost.
Anne Marie grew up on
the Essex coast with her parents and six siblings in a house
that was full of
books and movies and set the scene for her lifelong love of both.
She began writing
short stories when she was still at primary school after reading the book
The October
Country by Ray Bradbury. He was and still is her favourite author
and the reason she
decided at age 9 that she too would be a writer someday.
In her teens she
continued to write short stories and branched out into poetry,
publishing a few in
her late teens.
In her early twenties
she began committing herself to writing a novel
and wrote one by the
age of 20 that she then put away, fearing it was too weird for publication.
She wrote Purgatory
Hotel over several years,
but again kept it
aside after several rejections from publishers.
Luckily for her, she
found a home for her twisted tale with Crooked Cat Books.
Her favourite authors
include Ray Bradbury, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King,
Denis Lehane and
Douglas Coupland. She also takes great inspiration from music and movies,
her favourite artists
being Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, Interpol,
David Lynch and David
Fincher.
After ten years
living in London, Anne-Marie moved to Margate
where she lives with
her husband and their daughter
Media Links –
Website – www.annemarieormsby.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/annemarieormsby78/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/AMOrmsby
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