Nick Louth

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Nick Louth is a freelance journalist and author, based in Lincolnshire UK.

Before beginning writing fiction, he was a foreign correspondent for Reuters news agency, and a regular contributor to the Financial Times, MSN, and many financial magazines.


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Nick Louth I'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror …moreI'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror Mirror. Here's the blurb.

Helmand campaign veteran Virgil Bliss is used to earning a living under fire, in dirt, heat and cold. So when he is offered a lucrative job in London as close protection officer to one of the world’s most beautiful women, he can hardly believe his luck. How hard can it be?

Twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, her rise to celebrity and wealth comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life.

But celebrity extracts a price. Mira is assailed on all sides. Trailed by those who adore her, threatened and stalked by strangers online, and beaten up by a man she trusted. Virgil finds this isn’t the cushy number he imagined. Her home isn’t safe, her friends can’t be trusted, and her freedoms melt away. Then there is the enigma of the woman herself: where does the image end and the person begin?

As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain’s most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with Mira. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never been revealed to the public. But his plans to possess a unique beauty are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work.
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Nick Louth I love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten the…moreI love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten them, elicit sympathy, love or hatred - all through the power of the words you deploy. What a privilege! It's the best job in the world. (less)
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The mystery of sales figures

Just yesterday evening I discovered that my indie thriller, Bite, had gone from selling a few dozen copies in a month to over 20,000 which makes it the top-selling medical thriller on Amazon UK.
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We've been playing around with the e-book price a lot, trying to figure out where the demand curve is. The bulk of the sales must be on the giveaways. Clearly zero is Read more of this blog post »
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The Dark Edge by Nick Louth
"The Dark Edge is the third in the DI Jan Talantire series and boy, is it aptly named. Not just for the possible crime, a woman falling over a cliff edge, but for the dark edge of police politics and of human nature.
I find Jan a fabulous main characte" Read more of this review »
The Dark Edge by Nick Louth
"After reading The Dark Edge by Nick Louth, I cannot wait for the next edition of the DI Jan Talantire series! This book was impossible to put down for me. I needed to know what happened next, at every step.

There were a few plot lines and investigatio" Read more of this review »
The Dark Edge by Nick Louth
"The third of the series about D.I. Jan Talantire, written by Nick Louth, is “The Dark Edge”. Nick Louth is a fabulous author. I have read all his books, and “The Dark Edge” is a five-star read for me.
The story is about the death of Joanne Dexter, who" Read more of this review »
The Dark Edge by Nick Louth
"Thanks to Canelo and Netgalley for this eARC.

The Dark Edge by Nick Louth is a taut, atmospheric police procedural that blends psychological tension with a sharp eye for human motives. It’s a novel that thrives on ambiguity, pulling the reader into a" Read more of this review »
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“All worthwhile developments take time. Poverty of ambition is the heaviest chain on man’s soul.”
Nick Louth, Bite

“his first day at Pharmstar, Mazzio had sat in when Iron Jack briefed newly-hired business school graduates on strategy. ‘I want the next Prozac or Valium, the next Lipitor or Zantac,’ Jack had said, striding up and down, his big voice booming across the hall. ‘I want you to scour the world for billion-dollar-a-year blockbusters. Between you and me you can screw the cure for cancer as a financial proposition. What we need are treatments, not cures. Treatments that patients take every day, year in, year out. The clinical areas are obvious: depression, migraine, back pain, arthritis, cholesterol control, weight control. And the target market is only one: first world and affluent.”
Nick Louth, Bite

“Lies and truth share a narrow bed, like birth and death, pain and pleasure.”
Nick Louth, Bite

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