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Do-Over
Three strangers find themselves trapped in a collapsing building with no idea how they came to be there, or even who they are. Their immediate priority is to get to safety, answers can follow. Answers do, soon but the answers keep changing. When they do learn their pasts, they are offered employment on condition they choose to forget again. A forty-something computer geek, a young sexy socialite who draws eyes but not, it seems, love, and a confident, positive, older woman with not a clue how or where she has spent the last fifty they all choose the do-over.What made their previous lives so unbearable, and will history repeat itself? This fast-paced novel follows the strangely-assorted task-team through action, violence, betrayal, reunion and, ultimately, a few answers they can live with.
152 pages, Paperback
Published November 26, 2019
About the author
E.J. Lamprey
18 books33 followers2024 here we come - my seventh year in Spain and the one where I will master Spanish, or at least understand more of it. The problem isn't thinking up what to say, it is working out what is being said in response -
The last time I updated this profile I mentioned I was working on 2 books at once, I'm a little unnerved to realise that it is now 5 books, despite putting out two recently, the second Place book (Joanna Lamprey, and promptly being swept off into too many ideas for the third) and Hotchpotch which is a combination of old and new stories, novellas and shorts, and which I have absolutely no idea how to market. Nothing changes there, then.
My website link still goes straight to the guesthouse page, because fellow writers are my favourite guests (cyclists are my second favourite. Eclectic mix) but all the tabs are obvious, blogs on the home page, the usual. Recent blogs are more about my rescue dog than writing. That may change. I do find marketing the most fearful bore, because I am so very unskilled at it. I like my own books, and (should I even admit this?) re-read them occasionally. I do read lots of other books too. If others like mine I'm elated, but hate telling people I meet socially that I'm a writer. They're always disappointed not to have heard of me and if they do then read something I've written, tell me my books sound just like me. When it's something fairly violent and fast-moving, like Do-Over, that can be a bit unnerving. That's possibly one reason for defiantly submitting Hotchpotch because it is in several voices. Anyway. If we're already in synch, hey, there are two new books out there. If you're wondering whether I'm worth trying - well, I ramble a bit. You probably guessed that. I write cosy stuff, most of the time - you know, cup of tea, muffin, one of my books, we have a match. The "One to Six" box-set for the first 3 whodunits is a bargain. "Do-Over" is rather more hamburger than muffin. "Hotchpotch" is 3 novellas, all completely different, and a scattering of shorts. Wish you'd try it, if only to tell me how to describe it ...
The last time I updated this profile I mentioned I was working on 2 books at once, I'm a little unnerved to realise that it is now 5 books, despite putting out two recently, the second Place book (Joanna Lamprey, and promptly being swept off into too many ideas for the third) and Hotchpotch which is a combination of old and new stories, novellas and shorts, and which I have absolutely no idea how to market. Nothing changes there, then.
My website link still goes straight to the guesthouse page, because fellow writers are my favourite guests (cyclists are my second favourite. Eclectic mix) but all the tabs are obvious, blogs on the home page, the usual. Recent blogs are more about my rescue dog than writing. That may change. I do find marketing the most fearful bore, because I am so very unskilled at it. I like my own books, and (should I even admit this?) re-read them occasionally. I do read lots of other books too. If others like mine I'm elated, but hate telling people I meet socially that I'm a writer. They're always disappointed not to have heard of me and if they do then read something I've written, tell me my books sound just like me. When it's something fairly violent and fast-moving, like Do-Over, that can be a bit unnerving. That's possibly one reason for defiantly submitting Hotchpotch because it is in several voices. Anyway. If we're already in synch, hey, there are two new books out there. If you're wondering whether I'm worth trying - well, I ramble a bit. You probably guessed that. I write cosy stuff, most of the time - you know, cup of tea, muffin, one of my books, we have a match. The "One to Six" box-set for the first 3 whodunits is a bargain. "Do-Over" is rather more hamburger than muffin. "Hotchpotch" is 3 novellas, all completely different, and a scattering of shorts. Wish you'd try it, if only to tell me how to describe it ...
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