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Rockdown in Lockdown
Violet Winters was a master criminal. A one-woman crimewave. Until lockdown happened. Now she’s stuck in the house catching up on box sets and ordering crap off the internet. And then she finds out about The Lakehouse. A former rehab facility, the residents have been thrown out and replaced with a roll-call of some of the most dangerously stupid celebrities in this hemisphere all indulging in a torrent of excess while the rest of the world cowers in their beds. And that doesn’t sit well with Violet. At the centre of the The Lakehouse is a vault and inside… the combined riches of every one of these over-privileged idiots. Violet hatches a cunning plan to pull off an audacious robbery and begins by planting a man on the inside. But when does anything ever go to plan? With a social media starlet hell-bent on revealing Violet’s identity to her millions of followers and a deranged MMA fighter on their trail things rapidly go from bad to worse. If she can pull off the world’s only socially-distanced heist, it will be the stuff of legend. If she can’t she might very well end up floating face-down in the lake. Rockdown in Lockdown is the latest book in the Kilchester series. It mixes high-octane heist shenanigans with sharp, surreal wit.
- GenresCrime
216 pages, Paperback
Published December 23, 2021
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February 5, 2022
High-octane caper with relentless action, rib-tickling one liners in a modern day Robin Hood story. These characters get under your skin ( in a good way) and get better with each instalment. Brilliant backdrop and use of the pandemic. One that everyone should read to escape and dream for a while.
January 25, 2022
Like the rest of the country Kilchester is in lockdown, and Violet is bored but with the help of her mates, Barry, Lucas, Zoe and Katie she has come up with a plan to pull a heist in the middle of a lockdown.
Really enjoyed this latest addition in the kilchester series, full of adventure and fun 👍
Really enjoyed this latest addition in the kilchester series, full of adventure and fun 👍
January 21, 2022
Lockdown has hit Kilchester, just like everywhere. That’s rather problematic for the crew who need to con people and move freely to pull off their heist. But this is a cunning crew with criminal mastermind Violet at the helm. Can they pull off a heist in this strange world?!
With their joint efforts and individual skills, the Kilchester crew can achieve anything they put their minds to – after all they did, ooops nearly gave away a spoiler from a previous con there. But yes they are criminal masterminds who won’t let anything get in their way once they have their eyes on the prize … though they haven’t met Delores Ontario, social media slu… I mean influencer… She may be looking upwards to fame and international stardom but she’s not as dim as she acts … will she blow their plans to smithereens through her online presence?!
Rockdown In Lockdown is a fab read. Maxwell has put his unique twist on the pandemic to make an highly entertaining trip to Kilchester. I adore my trips to Kilchester, they make me smile, a slightly more witty side of the crime fiction genre. And in the world we have all been living in for the past couple of years we need something to poke fun at stuff!
Lockdown? Pah! That’s not going to stop the Kilchester crew in this highly entertaining caper to pull off the heist of the pandemic, bazooka and all!
With their joint efforts and individual skills, the Kilchester crew can achieve anything they put their minds to – after all they did, ooops nearly gave away a spoiler from a previous con there. But yes they are criminal masterminds who won’t let anything get in their way once they have their eyes on the prize … though they haven’t met Delores Ontario, social media slu… I mean influencer… She may be looking upwards to fame and international stardom but she’s not as dim as she acts … will she blow their plans to smithereens through her online presence?!
Rockdown In Lockdown is a fab read. Maxwell has put his unique twist on the pandemic to make an highly entertaining trip to Kilchester. I adore my trips to Kilchester, they make me smile, a slightly more witty side of the crime fiction genre. And in the world we have all been living in for the past couple of years we need something to poke fun at stuff!
Lockdown? Pah! That’s not going to stop the Kilchester crew in this highly entertaining caper to pull off the heist of the pandemic, bazooka and all!
March 22, 2024
Violet and her larcenous colleagues execute their latest job in and around Kilchester. This time they're taking on a group of celebs who are living it up in a safe Covid retreat and surviving on stolen NHS PPE and other equipment.
So that's the premise, and while this story gallops along at Adam Maxwell's frenetic pace, and while the narrative is fast and compelling, the one thing that's been missing since the second story is a villain, someone who gives Violet's crew problems, real problems.
I'm still waiting for a story to equal The Dali Deception, which I really liked. Since then Violet's jobs have been too easy, there's been no real challenge, no real danger. It's also difficult trying to make thieves into nice people, because let's face it, that's automatically stretching credibility just a little too far.
Violet and her crew have potential, but I'm hoping that next time around, they come up against someone as exquisitely evil as Big Terry, and I hope said bad guy makes life very difficult for them.
So that's the premise, and while this story gallops along at Adam Maxwell's frenetic pace, and while the narrative is fast and compelling, the one thing that's been missing since the second story is a villain, someone who gives Violet's crew problems, real problems.
I'm still waiting for a story to equal The Dali Deception, which I really liked. Since then Violet's jobs have been too easy, there's been no real challenge, no real danger. It's also difficult trying to make thieves into nice people, because let's face it, that's automatically stretching credibility just a little too far.
Violet and her crew have potential, but I'm hoping that next time around, they come up against someone as exquisitely evil as Big Terry, and I hope said bad guy makes life very difficult for them.
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