“Politics is Murder” – by way of explanation

My latest book, “Politics is Murder” is out today and I thought I would take a moment to tell you a little bit about it. It is the fictional account of a female serial killer, Charlotte Heard, who works in Westminster. She is employed by a failing think tank that nonetheless pays her well and allows her to accrue contacts on the way to fulfilling her true ambition, becoming a Member of Parliament. She then uses her “talents” to secure a CEO role. Her master plan is moving along nicely.

Then one morning, the police show up at her door. She is being accused of a murder – one she had absolutely nothing to do with. Is she being framed? Why would someone frame her given her actual crimes? Charlotte has to figure this all out while evading the law and soon her life is in grave danger.

That’s the basic plot. I tried to make it work as a thriller and it has the structure of a who-done-it. But the raison d’etre of the novel is to satirise the last year or so of British politics – and it’s this element of the book that I’m most interesting in hearing from readers of this blog as to how well it works. Throughout the novel I skewer – pardon the pun – all sides of the political divide. I try and give a look into the Westminster bubble that I’ve never seen explored in any previous fiction; to bring to light what is wrong with it. I did this using fiction because one, it gave me licence to explore things that could have come across as heavy handed if dealt with in a non-fiction book and two, it allows me to reproduce thinly veiled accounts of real events under the guise of everything being fictional. Yes, some of this stuff happened (not the murders, just to be clear!).

My editor describes the book as “House of Cards meets Killing Eve with hints of Coen Brothers and early Tarantino”. I invite you to tell me if that’s accurate or not. If you like the book – and even if you don’t – I would ask you to leave a review on Amazon. It can be tough to get them for an unknown hack such as myself, so the more the merrier. Thank you to everyone who checks the book out, I appreciate it. Thanks as well to Headline Books and Hachette UK for publishing the novel.

Here it is (clink on the link below):

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