The Ferret Has Landed
by Nell Peters
Price: $0.99 USD. 63900 words.
Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
Sebastian Avon is newly home from university when he falls in lust with talentless interior designer Prudence Dent. Though his parents and four brothers see through her, Sebastian is way too gormless to catch on. Prudence is dangerously not what she seems and neither are new neighbours the Fanshaw-Browns - they all have a past that will come back to haunt them...and the Avon family.
Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Nov. 29, 2011
Nell Peters
Biography
Hi! My real name is Anne, with a double-barrelled surname, so I use a much shorter pen name, courtesy my parents' Christian names. And no, my dad is not called Nell.
I've always written, in one form or another - I just love it. Because I enjoy writing crime, I went back to uni to read psychology and sociology, hoping to give my plots and characterisation a bit of an edge. I may hold some sort of record for most ancient student on campus.
My protagonist, Rose Huntingford (Double You and sequel Santa's Slays) takes her name from my paternal great grandmother, who was illegitimate, born in a workhouse in 1876. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to image how poor she and her mother (Rosa) would have been. But Rose must have been quite a lady - she pulled herself up by the bootstraps and married a rich landowner. That sort of social mobility was very rare indeed for the time. I hope she'd approve of 'my' Rose.
Incidentally, her son (my grandfather, obv.) lied about his age to become a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I - so, I have two acts that are pretty hard to follow. Must try harder!
I live in Norfolk (UK) with my husband, an artist, plus our two youngest boys (of four!)
Thanks for dropping by!
I've always written, in one form or another - I just love it. Because I enjoy writing crime, I went back to uni to read psychology and sociology, hoping to give my plots and characterisation a bit of an edge. I may hold some sort of record for most ancient student on campus.
My protagonist, Rose Huntingford (Double You and sequel Santa's Slays) takes her name from my paternal great grandmother, who was illegitimate, born in a workhouse in 1876. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to image how poor she and her mother (Rosa) would have been. But Rose must have been quite a lady - she pulled herself up by the bootstraps and married a rich landowner. That sort of social mobility was very rare indeed for the time. I hope she'd approve of 'my' Rose.
Incidentally, her son (my grandfather, obv.) lied about his age to become a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I - so, I have two acts that are pretty hard to follow. Must try harder!
I live in Norfolk (UK) with my husband, an artist, plus our two youngest boys (of four!)
Thanks for dropping by!
Books
Ernestine
by Nell Peters
Price: Free! 2910 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
Jack the Ripper - at last, the truth.
Price: Free! 2910 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
Jack the Ripper - at last, the truth.
Write Therapy
by Nell Peters
Price: $5.00 USD. 16420 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Nonfiction.
Write wrongs and have a giggle along the way! Writing simple poetry is a clinically proven way to improve your mental and physical health - whether you just feel a bit down, or suffer a more serious disorder. The book guides through easy stages, showing how to put thoughts into words and those words into rhyme to write therapeutic poetry without the po. It's easy. It works. Give it a go.
Price: $5.00 USD. 16420 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Nonfiction.
Write wrongs and have a giggle along the way! Writing simple poetry is a clinically proven way to improve your mental and physical health - whether you just feel a bit down, or suffer a more serious disorder. The book guides through easy stages, showing how to put thoughts into words and those words into rhyme to write therapeutic poetry without the po. It's easy. It works. Give it a go.
Santa's Slays
by Nell Peters
Price: $0.99 USD. 79750 words. Published on November 30, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A Christmas cracker! Book 2 in the DCI Rose Huntingford series. Santa has become a serial killer overnight - a mission killer (the hardest to catch), avenging events of many years ago. But what was the trigger? The squad must also try to trace the mother of an abandoned baby, tragically killed. Plus, a mad woman is after Rose's head on a platter - a merry Christmas isn't looking likely...
Price: $0.99 USD. 79750 words. Published on November 30, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) A Christmas cracker! Book 2 in the DCI Rose Huntingford series. Santa has become a serial killer overnight - a mission killer (the hardest to catch), avenging events of many years ago. But what was the trigger? The squad must also try to trace the mother of an abandoned baby, tragically killed. Plus, a mad woman is after Rose's head on a platter - a merry Christmas isn't looking likely...
Double You
by Nell Peters
Price: Free! 114210 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 2 reviews)
DCI Rose Huntingford fantasises about a proper job where she'd get a decent night's sleep and never have to look at another body. Maybe that would sort her personal life out too, because it's the pits. Then identical twins start dying and Rose must find what links the victims, apart from a monozygotic conception. Dangerous work when those responsible have no intention of being apprehended.
Price: Free! 114210 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 2 reviews) DCI Rose Huntingford fantasises about a proper job where she'd get a decent night's sleep and never have to look at another body. Maybe that would sort her personal life out too, because it's the pits. Then identical twins start dying and Rose must find what links the victims, apart from a monozygotic conception. Dangerous work when those responsible have no intention of being apprehended.
Hostile Witness
by Nell Peters
Price: Free! 105640 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
(4.67 from 3 reviews)
Abandoned by her husband, Callie Ashton thinks she’s hit rock bottom. She’s wrong. She finds a neighbour dead and becomes the next target of the killer, Balaclava Man, who will stop at nothing to eliminate her. Fear for her life, a mounting body count and police ineptitude persuade Callie she must unmask the killer herself - but she has no idea how close to home the real dangers lie.
Price: Free! 105640 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
(4.67 from 3 reviews) Abandoned by her husband, Callie Ashton thinks she’s hit rock bottom. She’s wrong. She finds a neighbour dead and becomes the next target of the killer, Balaclava Man, who will stop at nothing to eliminate her. Fear for her life, a mounting body count and police ineptitude persuade Callie she must unmask the killer herself - but she has no idea how close to home the real dangers lie.
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Smashwords book reviews by Nell Peters
- The One You Love
on Nov. 29, 2011
A pacey plot that keeps you guessing - and well written. Free too! Give it a go and if you like this book, look at Someone To Save You, which is even better.