Location: United Kingdom
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Chris Graham
Biography
Chris Graham
Biker: Professional driver: Man with his eyes and ears wide open, and a very good imagination: that's author Chris Graham, summed up in just a few words.
His work and play have brought him into contact with a wide range of people from all levels of the social spectrum. His keen eye for those little nuances of character, and a good ear for the language and speech patterns that define people so well, have allowed him to populate his writing with such a varied, recognisable, and entirely believable, cast.
His eye for detail and his appreciation of 'place', as he absorbed his surroundings in the towns, villages, and the countryside that he visited, gave him somewhere for that cast of characters to inhabit.
Put these together with his wide interests in many things, a few situations that really happened to either himself or people he knew, along with, of course, his own imagination, and you get the kind of plots that make his 'Lena's Friends' crime novels what they are.
Get to know these, often flawed, characters. Then like them. Disagree with them. Even despair of them at times.
Recognise the places, or feel as if you do, even if you've never been to them before. Understand those situations that, almost certainly, you have never been in… and some that are so normal that everyone is familiar with. But most of all, enjoy the journey that the books will take you on.
Biker: Professional driver: Man with his eyes and ears wide open, and a very good imagination: that's author Chris Graham, summed up in just a few words.
His work and play have brought him into contact with a wide range of people from all levels of the social spectrum. His keen eye for those little nuances of character, and a good ear for the language and speech patterns that define people so well, have allowed him to populate his writing with such a varied, recognisable, and entirely believable, cast.
His eye for detail and his appreciation of 'place', as he absorbed his surroundings in the towns, villages, and the countryside that he visited, gave him somewhere for that cast of characters to inhabit.
Put these together with his wide interests in many things, a few situations that really happened to either himself or people he knew, along with, of course, his own imagination, and you get the kind of plots that make his 'Lena's Friends' crime novels what they are.
Get to know these, often flawed, characters. Then like them. Disagree with them. Even despair of them at times.
Recognise the places, or feel as if you do, even if you've never been to them before. Understand those situations that, almost certainly, you have never been in… and some that are so normal that everyone is familiar with. But most of all, enjoy the journey that the books will take you on.
Books
This is Lena: A Compendium of ‘Recreation’ & ‘Payback’
by Chris Graham
Price:
Free!
Words: 28,650.
Language:
English.
Published: September 19, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Lena Fox and her friends - A prostitute who is as successful as Lena knows a very wide range of people both inside and outside the law - She and her friends keep getting involved in crimes including murder and sometimes they are simple but sometimes they are complicated international mysteries. Read the first two short stories and meet Lena.
Deadweight
by Chris Graham
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 100,830.
Language:
English.
Published: November 1, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
A 'Lena's Friends' novel.
Weight loss is big business… So is pornography.
If you can combine the two, then there could be serious money to be made.
But who’s going to be the next to die?
Lena’s Friends in the Police aim to find out… and to stop it from happening.
Sharknose
by Chris Graham
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 107,400.
Language:
English.
Published: June 26, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
A 'Lena's Friends' novel.
When a man takes his final journey, it would normally be in a hearse. He’d be wearing his best suit, or at the very least a shroud. However, when that journey’s taken in a small single engined aircraft, and he’s dressed in a basque, with stockings and suspenders, and wearing women’s make up, then something’s obviously gone awry.
But he’s still dead, just the same.
Coincidences: Something isn’t quite right about this
by Chris Graham
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 103,460.
Language:
English.
Published: June 17, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
An exciting Lena's Friends Crime novel - Current shenanigans and an old murder... When all of these come together, both justice and death become inevitable.
Retributions: Don’t Tell Me It’s Another Bloody E-mail
by Chris Graham
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 115,550.
Language:
English.
Published: December 5, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
An explosion in an empty bookshop, that harms nobody, is followed by a string of murders that have no apparent motive to connect them to each other.
All the victims are being claimed by the same killer, in a series of e-mails sent to the investigating officers.
What have the victims done to incur his obvious displeasure?
Read 'Retributions' to find out...
Transactions: The Gift Wrapped, Special Selection Box Of Assorted Tarts.
by Chris Graham
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 157,390.
Language:
English.
Published: July 8, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Two middle class schoolgirls, working as prostitutes, provide the thread that ties together the lives of various characters around the city of Bristol, along with the crimes that some of them are involved in both at home and abroad.
Diamonds and gold are being smuggled, and there is now a risk that the operation may be discovered.
This means that somebody must die.