‘Death Of A Mermaid’
by Lesley Thomson
Cover Reveal

As we approach October 31st and Halloween, the innovative team at Head of Zeus, have gathered together three of their spookiest, scariest stories due for release early in 2020, and are sharing advance cover releases, one each day on 28th, 29th and 30th October.
Today’s second post in this mini series, features a great new crime thriller, Death Of A Mermaid, by one of the genre’s most compelling authors, Lesley Thomson.
If you like the sound of this book, you can pre-order from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com, for release on May 7th 2020

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DEATH OF A MERMAID

Freddy left her childhood home in Newhaven twenty-two years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she’s back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger.

Nothing here has changed: the stink of fish coming up from the marshes; the shopping trolleys half-buried by muddy tides; the neighbours sniffing for a new piece of gossip.

It’s not what Freddy would have chosen, but at least while she’s here she’ll get to see her childhood best friends, Toni and Pauline.

At school, the three of them were inseparable. The teachers called them the Mermaids for their obsession with the sea, and with each other.

Then Pauline goes missing, and Freddy must decide. Go back to her new life, or stay and find her friend?

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LESLEY THOMSON

Lesley was born in 1958 and brought up in Hammersmith, West London. She graduated from Brighton University in 1981 and moved to Sydney, Australia the year after, where in between writing her first attempt at a novel, she sold newspapers in a shop at Wynyard underground station in the heart of the city.

Returning to London, Lesley did several jobs to support writing, including working for one of the first Internet companies in the UK. She completed an MA in English Literature at Sussex University and she is now a guest tutor on the Creative writing and Publishing MA at West Dean, where she also runs a crime-writing short course, leads workshops and takes master classes on writing crime novels.

Lesley currently divides her time between East Sussex and Gloucestershire, living with her partner and a raggedy poodle both of whom are treated to blow by blow accounts of scenes and twists in a plot at any given time. In fact, she doesn’t know how they sleep at night!

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