STAC 7 Unleashed

Today sees the release of STAC Mystery #7, The Chocolate Egg Murders. If you want some fun, there’s a party on Facebook, and you’re welcome to come along.

Unlike my alter ego Flatcap who will take any and every opportunity to drink free beer and scoff free pies, I’ve never been a big lover of these events. The day tends to drag on, and people drift in and out because unlike Flatcap and me, they have real lives and real work to deal with. Because I write full time, I can usually wander through my fantasy worlds at leisure. On launch days, I can’t.

But after the success of My Deadly Valentine, I’ve been anticipating this launch, and it hasn’t disappointed.

As I write, it’s 6:20 in the morning, and The Chocolate Egg Murders is already in the UK Kindle, British Detectives top 100 at number 69… my favourite position.

Here is a brief extract from the book.

Joe, Sheila and Brenda are in the bar of the Leeward Hotel, with Virginia Nicholson, the woman who accidentally threw a chocolate egg and hit Joe earlier in the day.

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Joe spent several minutes explaining the principle of the Sanford 3rd Age Club and their respective roles in it. At the end of his little lecture, Ginny was suitably impressed.

“I think that’s damn nice of you, looking after a load of crumblies.”

“Crumblies?” Joe was so astonished, he almost dropped his glass. He waved at the room with his free hand. “Lemme tell you something, Ginny. You’re surrounded by the biggest set of born again teenagers, sex and beer mad thugs, you’re likely to meet this side of a Hell’s Angels’ convention.”

“Crumbling they are not,” Brenda agreed.

Sheila tittered. “Except for Sylvia Goodson.”

“And Alma Norris.”

The two women collapsed into fits of giggles.

“You’ll have to excuse ’em, Ginny. They’re in the early stages of senility.”

“Well, if they’re all as fit as you reckon, maybe they should be out on the Great Egg Hunt in Clifftop Park, tomorrow.”

“We will be there,” Sheila assured her. “And so will Joe, but we had to twist his arm—”

“And his wallet,” Brenda interrupted. “He’s too tired and too tight, y’see.”

Ginny laughed. “Well, I hope you score plenty of eggs. But I’m warning you, they won’t be easy to find.”

“And how would you know that?” Joe asked.

“Because I’m supplying them,” she replied. “My bit for charity, you know. More than that, I have to be in Clifftop Park at half past eight tomorrow morning to hide them.”

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How many eggs will they find? What else might they turn up?

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The Chocolate Egg Murders, the seventh STAC Mystery is available for download from:

Amazon (Kindle)

Smashwords (All formats)

Crooked Cat Books (MOBI, EPUB, PDF)

And in paperback from:

Amazon

By DW Rob