Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
March 24, 2011
Neil Willis
Biography
Neil Willis lives in London,His latest books are:-
The Brave Dont Cry ( a mining murder mystery)
A Cold Light and North Korean Proxy.
Neil previously having lived in Derbyshire, England. He used some of his real life experiences in "Proxy Lover" having attended Chesterfield College of Art, Then London University Goldsmith's college and Liverpool College of art studying Painting in the early 1960s. Spending most of his career in Colleges of Art, retiring as head of a school of art and design, he taught fundamentals of design at the university of Wisconsin, USA. His second book, 'A Cold Light', about a mining disaster and love affair, is developed from his home mining background in the Midlands coal fields. He spent a short while after leaving school down the mines in that home area.
He regularly works as a musician, previously drums but latterly tenor sax with several South London bands.
His novel, "Proxy Lover" and now "A Cold Light", builds upon some of these past experiences in the UK and USA
The Brave Dont Cry ( a mining murder mystery)
A Cold Light and North Korean Proxy.
Neil previously having lived in Derbyshire, England. He used some of his real life experiences in "Proxy Lover" having attended Chesterfield College of Art, Then London University Goldsmith's college and Liverpool College of art studying Painting in the early 1960s. Spending most of his career in Colleges of Art, retiring as head of a school of art and design, he taught fundamentals of design at the university of Wisconsin, USA. His second book, 'A Cold Light', about a mining disaster and love affair, is developed from his home mining background in the Midlands coal fields. He spent a short while after leaving school down the mines in that home area.
He regularly works as a musician, previously drums but latterly tenor sax with several South London bands.
His novel, "Proxy Lover" and now "A Cold Light", builds upon some of these past experiences in the UK and USA
Where to find Neil Willis online
Website: http://neil.willis@hotmail.co.uk
Books
North Korean Proxy
by Neil Willis
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 108,100.
Language:
English.
Published: January 28, 2012
.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Courtroom
This 108,000 word novel is built around a lawyer who compromises a colleague, and finds murder and Korean spies along the way, sadness and family love are lost for ever, International intrigue .computer hacking and money laundering, In the end, the family disintegrates
A Cold Light
by Neil Willis
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 48,200.
Language:
English.
Published: November 15, 2011
.
Categories:
Fiction » Plays & Screenplays » European
Ivy is the wife of the Chief Electrical engineer at a colliery in the late 1940s, who falls for one of her husband’s younger electricians, later, during a mine disaster which leaves both men trapped in separate underground sections; she has to decide which one to have rescued first. the other may die of Blackdamp gas. Based in a midlands mining area, this story is based on a real mine.
Proxy Lover
by Neil Willis
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 110,700.
Language:
English.
Published: July 2, 2011
.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Proxy Lover
A drama built around a lawyers family, involving a murder leading to a strange international chase.
Neil Willis' tag cloud
1940s working class workers
a family time loss
a mine story
betrayal
coal mining
computer crime
computer mystery
crime
crime fiction
disaster
family loss
international crime
interpol
law
lost love
lost youth
love affair
micro chip
money laundering
murder
police
sadness through loss
sex
time concepts