The Indie Connection: Authors and Bloggers Unite! discussion

Hi All,

Checking out the group’s goodreads book genre and favourites, I see they read Val McDermid with her DCI Karen Pirie series and Katherine V. Forrest with her Kate Delafield series, as well as J.M.Redmann with the Micky Knight series. My Mavis Bone character is also a self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist, and a private detective.
I’m seeking your goodreads book review in exchange for a FREE COPY of my psychological thriller, with a 90,000-word count; titled `MAVIS BONE AND THE FLEDGLING KILLER by B.P.Smythe, My book is to be made available in December 2020. Contact: barrysmythe@hotmail.com
The book opens with a serial killer, whose evil roots were planted from a traumatic childhood. He makes an agenda to rob and kill women for financial gain, over the years 2008 to 2014. His crime spree efforts are checked and eventually foiled by Mavis Bone, a fifty-nine year old Australian, lesbian, private investigator. And with her sixty-four year old German lesbian secretary, Gertrude Stick, they operate the SW19 Wimbledon Broadway based, Mavis Bone Detective Agency.
Chasing the fledgling killer, through his ingenious methodical killing spree, is hands on Mavis Bone, and she’s not afraid to get them dirty. This involves the death of her husband, and a problem client that could send her secretary to prison for a war crime.
Dealing with her own personal issues through the years, Mavis has blood on her hands and sees it justifiable, even though the police wouldn’t. Her gender choices, along with her racist opinionated views, were molded in her hard Australian outback childhood, and were the motivation for killing her prostitute philandering husband.
Mavis Bone is a real believable Ozzy crude character, who has a preference for strap-on lesbian sex and snorting Charlie - a cocaine habit shepicked up in Columbia as a student while backpacking around South America during her early twenties.
One must remember throughout history, authors have been causing controversy while attempting to subvert the dominant structures in society, and provoke people to see life differently. After all, Mary Shelley did this with Frankenstein, and the subsequent morality issues of being different. While Robert Bloch and his Norman Bates, broke new boundaries of Voyeurism. As did Thomas Harris with his transgender Jame Gumb, making him an antagonist with empathy, because of his destroyed childhood and his failure of sexual change. And B.P.Smythe has achieved this with his Mavis Bone and Gertrude Stick characters, creating intimate personal relationships. Inviting the reader to peek behind closed pages. Similar to a voyeur inviting the viewer to peek behind drawn blinds and through the window. And finally, drawing the reader into the psychological aftermath, revealing how killing and sexual urges can fester and go sour when suppressed for too long.

Kind Regards
Barry Smythe (barrysmythe@hotmail.com)
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