HITTING DEADLINE, A Crime Thriller Novel, by Peter Smith (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Peter Smith. Published by Austin Macauley Publishers, USA., 2023, 1st Edition. ULTRA RARE: SIGNED, Dedicated and Dated by the Author to his Doctor!. Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6 inch, 308 pages.  

HITTING DEADLINE, is a semi-autobiographical crime thriller novel that follows Ben Ludlow, a hard-nosed Canadian crime reporter, whose life takes a dark turn after receiving a telephone call from behind bars. A convicted killer reaches out to him, plunging Ludlow into a complex web of multiple murders. 

Convicted killers don't often ring their local newspapers from behind bars. Hard-nosed Canadian crime reporter Ben Ludlow took one such phone call which plunged his life into the blood-thirsty world of multiple murders. Soon other killers called him from behind bars. Before long he had a murderers' hot line going. Who was out there sparking these scary killers to call him? They themselves were evil monsters. They had each been convicted of bludgeoning or stabbing or strangling innocent women to death. Who could be worse than them? Ludlow discovered a mysterious mastermind was feeding him inside information on all these crimes - and other slayings, too. He was now on top of the greatest murder scoop of his career. Then, just when he was about to expose all he knew, shattering events overtook him in a blur of action. He was accused of being a killer himself. Cops turned on him. As his life spun out of control more shocks, out of his control, crowded in on him...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Smith is a lifelong history buff, award-winning author, and retired civil servant. He holds a post-graduate degree in Folklife Studies from the University of Leeds (UK), and has published articles in British Columbia Magazine and the Silvery Slocan Historical Society newsletter. In 2020, he won the BC Historical Federation’s Community History Award for his extensively researched first book on BC’s silver rush.

1st Edition Author Signed  

ISBN: 9781685628963  

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