Fry

IndieReader.com's Best Indie Books of 2013'A Breakneck Roller Coaster Ride' She acts like she's your new best friend, but is she really a deadly enemy?When Isabel Anderson nearly runs over mysterious Alicia McBride, she is ridden with guilt. She helps Alicia get a job at the supermarket where she works, and soon, Alicia is acting like her new best friend. But then strange fires start to break out all over the small seaside town of Queensbeach, including at the caravan park where Alicia is staying. Isabel suspects Alicia knows more than she's letting on and grows increasingly nervous when her friend Deacon invites Alicia to stay with him. But it's Isabel the police suspect. Determined to confront Alicia, Isabel bursts into her room and sees the word 'FRY' branded across her back in capital letters. From then on, she sees the word "FRY' everywhere she goes: in graffiti, on toilet walls, even on car registration plates. Then her beloved cat, Fluffy, disappears and Isabel is convinced Alicia is behind it. She puts up posters all over her neighbourhood, but as fast as she puts them up, someone takes them down. Soon, a whole spate of fires is breaking out and Isabel must stay one step ahead of the flames and the police. In order to survive, she must question her own innocence, her sanity and the very fabric of her morality. Can she win back Deacon? And will she ever find Fluffy? FRY is a very British fast paced psychological thriller. The CharactersRed-haired Isabel Anderson lives on a diet of tea and takeaways. She's a junior manager at her local supermarket but she lacks ambition and her greatest passion in life is for shopping. She drinks too much, smokes too much and spends too much. She is also fiercely independent and lives alone with only her cat, Fluffy for company. Deacon Frost is a good-natured but slightly opinionated doctor. He is well-built and used to work as a bouncer. He now lives in a beautiful beach house overlooking the sea. He ought to have everything, but he's been single for many years. Alicia McBride is new in town and dresses like a bedraggled orphan. She has an aura of wide-eyed innocence, but does something darker lurk beneath? What brings her to Queensbeach? And why now? The SettingQueensbeach is a fictional English seaside town, out of season. With all the tourists gone for winter, it feels a bit like a ghost town. The sky is almost permanently grey, making it the perfect setting for a chilling psychological thriller. The styleFRY is a fast paced psychological thriller written in a conversational British style. If you like chick lit thrillers with female protagonists, then this could be for you. It has romance, but there is also an intriguing mystery that will keep you guessing right up until the very last page. FRY contains mild language, very few sex scenes and no gore. Top of the free kindle download chartsAt its launch, FRY was number one for free English language psychological thrillers on both Amazon Canada and Amazon Germany. Other books by this authorMay Queen Killers (Coming Soon) If you enjoy fast paced chick lit thrillers, then visit www.LornaDounaeva.com for free giveaways and updates on new releases.About the AuthorLorna Dounaeva is a quirky British crime writer who was named after the book, Lorna Doone. She decided that she wanted to become an author at five years old, after coming second in a beauty contest, losing out to a boy. She went on to become a politics graduate and worked for the British Home Office for a number of years, before turning to crime fiction. She loves books and films with strong female characters and her influences include Single White Female and Sleeping with the Enemy. She lives in Surrey, England with her husband and two small children who keep her busy wiping food off the ceiling and removing mints from USB sockets. She is currently working on her new novel, May Queen Killers and a free web serial called Angels' Island, both of which will be published later this year. You can follow her @LornaDounaeva on Twitter or at LornaDounaeva.com