DIVE a totally gripping, breathlessly twisty crime mystery

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Frogman David Cade usually passes the bodies on but his new colleague Naomi Harding wants to pursue the deaths.

Fans of Robert Bryndza, Patricia Gibney, Angela Marsons, Biba Pearce and Line of Duty, prepare to dive into your new favourite read! He studied for an MA in Dramaturgy and Script Development at University of Exeter and is an alumni of Curtis Brown Creative. Naomi has been thrown out of CID under a dark cloud as she finds herself being held responsible for the death of her colleagues. Working with an editor wasn’t as painful as it could have been though, and I put that down to working with script editors in the past.I partly blame myself for this: I should have picked up on this when I first spoke to them about the books, and everything I’m doing now can hopefully course-correct the problem. Another element I enjoyed was the way tension is built throughout, both through the use of a dual narrative and through plotting.

There were definitely some publishers that said they wanted something more conventionally commercial. A briefcase is discovered in the same stretch of water, and suddenly the higher-ups at CID, including Naomi's rival, Detective Chief Inspector Shannon Baines, start showing an interest. The emotional burden is one to be engaged with and recognised, or you risk believing, that your reasonable reactions to unreasonable situations are somehow wrong.Stephen King has a great quote in On Writing that I can relate to: “Writing is not life, but sometimes, it can be a way back to life. However, in Jon Barton’s Dive, I found myself surprised continually throughout the book at both the turns of the plot and the actions of the characters, and not a hint of cheese.

His latest novel, Little Creatures, was longlisted for the BPA First Novel Award 2023, and reached the final round of reading for the Cheshire Novel Prize 2023. She lives in the heart of the Peak District with her super-keen MTB family and loves nothing more than being in the Scottish highlands, either climbing munros or riding her bike. There is a lot of technical detail and jargon about the marine police which added an authenticity but went over my head a bit.Now I’ve have had time to fully explore the source of these problems, it’s become clear that there was no intention to sell to the audience I hoped to reach. I read a lot of Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett, and because I loved movies I read a lot of novel adaptations for the films I enjoyed at the time.

Our Head of Marketing, Lorna is a publishing Masters graduate, and short listed young publisher of the year. The dead girls all have the same nightclub stamp on the backs of their hands — the same one David’s daughter had the day she disappeared.

Repetition and repartee meant I overheard some of these horrors, and eventually, they’d include me from the other side of the bar. He is convinced to listen to her when his own daughter goes missing… Dive is a murder mystery and detective novel set in London. As for the practices themselves, most were justified by jargon and industry speak, the language of which was alien to me when I first took tentative steps into the world of publishing. It’s information I wish I’d known at the time, and since being forewarned is forearmed, I would like to share my honest experience.