BLURB:

Police detectives rely on Amy Lane to track the digital debris of their most elusive criminals–when she’s not in the throes of a panic attack. After two students disappear in Cardiff, Amy uncovers photographic evidence that they’ve been murdered. From the safety of her computer, she looks through the city’s digital eyes to trace the steps of a killer.

Amy’s investigation requires footwork, however, and the agoraphobic genius can’t hack it alone. She turns to her newly-hired cleaner, ex-con Jason Carr. Jason is fascinated by both Amy and the work, and can’t refuse even when she sends him into situations that risk returning him to prison.

The killer strikes again and again, and Amy and Jason are the only investigators closing in on him. But Amy’s psyche is cracking under the strain, and Jason’s past is catching up with him. To stop the next murder, they must hold their unconventional partnership together at any cost.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Excerpt:

#1: Jason meets Amy

The air was stale, like the old attic at his nan’s house. Beneath his feet, the carpet was dusty and covered in what looked like wood chippings. The hallway opened out to the left to reveal the living room, with decent furniture gone bad, dirty and worn.

“Hello?” Jason ventured farther into the flat and tried to get his heart rate down. And then he saw her.

The first impression he had was of metal—three flatscreen monitors, surrounded by computer towers and metal boxes, two keyboards, and wires taped haphazardly to the marked grey walls. Before this shrine to technology, a young woman sat in a high-backed office chair, typing on one of the keyboards. She was slight, drowning in loose casual clothes that had seen better days. Her hair was long, thick with grease and tied in a rough ponytail, and her skin was sallow, as if she hadn’t seen the sun or a steak for several weeks. She was also steadfastly ignoring him.

“So…um…where do you want me to start?” Jason said with as much cheer as he could muster. Her fingers never slowed on the keys, typing faster than he could keep up with, adding to the random words strung together with symbols on her computer screen. “Hello? Can you hear me?”

“Do what you like.” The voice was barely audible, a cracked whisper that only just reached him over the clacking keys. She sounded rusty, as if she only spoke twice a week, and he decided he was unlikely to get any further conversation out of her. No wonder her sister was in Australia.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Bio

Rosie Claverton grew up in Devon, daughter to a Sri Lankan father and a Norfolk mother, surrounded by folk mythology and surly sheep. She moved to Cardiff to study Medicine and adopted Wales as her home. Her short film “Dragon Chasers” aired on BBC Wales in Autumn 2012. Her debut novel Binary Witness is due for publication by Carina Press in 2014. Currently exiled to London, she lives with her journalist husband and their pet hedgehog.

Links

Facebook Page

Series website

Blog

Twitter

Buy links

Carina Press

Amazon

B&N

Google Books

iBooks

I am pleased to share the following interview with the author!

1. If you had not become an author, what job would you have chosen and why?

I have a full time day job as a psychiatrist, which takes up most of my time. If I wasn’t a doctor or author, I would love to own a bookshop/tea shop, where I would bake cakes all day and meet creative people who like tea and cake. I would travel all about town testing teas and cakes for my shop and reading lots of book so I could make the best recommendations. It’s a very elaborate fantasy!

2.  What is the most difficult part of the writing process for you and why?  How about the easiest part?

I really struggled with description. When I edit, I need to concentrate on all five senses and the experience for my characters. My other writing passion is screenplays, which is very description-light, so it’s particularly hard for me to switch between the two.

The easiest part is plot! I love action scenes, putting characters in danger, and ramping up the tension. I’m also a huge dialogue fan and my characters love to banter. I blame that on watching too much West Wing when I was younger!

3.  If you could live in any time period, what would you pick and why?

I love living right now, because I’m very attached to my computer. However, I would’ve enjoyed the Georgian era, living Jane Austen’s life, but being a woman of colour in that period would have closed so many doors to me. I also quite fancy the 24th century, provided I can end up on Picard’s Enterprise or Deep Space Nine!

4.  In ten years, where do you see yourself?

I hope to be back in my beloved Cardiff, with my husband and maybe some children, with my bookshelves stuffed with my own crime novels – maybe Amy Lane Book 15 or so!

5.  If you could make a movie of your book, what would you dream cast?

I never pictured anyone in particular while writing Binary Witness, but I reckon Ellen Page would make a good Amy and Tom Hopper (of Merlin and Black Sails fame) for Jason.

6.  What time of day do you do your best work in general?

If I have a full day available to write, I do a couple of hours in the morning and then three or four in the afternoon and evening. However, most of the time I fit my writing in around my day job, so I do a lot of work in the evening.

7.  What do you like to do in your “free time?”

I love the theatre. I’ve seen lots of West End musicals – Les Miserables is my favourite, with Wicked a close second – and recently I’ve been trying out more independent plays. I am, of course, a voracious reader when I have time and prefer mysteries, classics and fantasy.

8.  How has your life changed in the past 5-10 years?

In the past five years, I graduated medical school, moved from Cardiff to Wrexham to London, got married, bought a house, wrote a handful of short films, and published my first novel! I would never have guessed my life would be like this from the mists of 2009.

9.  Do you have a favorite quote or saying?  Please share if you do.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Rosie will be awarding to randomly drawn winners during the tour one of the following items: a “@” pendant, an engraved Floppy Disk Keyring, a Cardiff City Typographic Mug,a £10 Amazon voucher, 3 Binary Witness ebooks. Please enter on the rafflecopter below and follow the entire tour for more chances to win!
Binary Witness Rafflecopter Giveaway

Spread the love

Tweet