Love the twisty, turny plots of Pip Drysdale? Twenty copies of her latest The Close-Up are up for grabs in the November Crime Stack draw for members only. The Close-Up is an electrifying, dark and (of course) twisty thriller that follows a young novelist, once full of promise but now failing to live up to it, who becomes embroiled in the life of a hot movie star… and his stalker.
The Crime Stack is a benefit for Sisters in Crime members. Every month there are 20 books to win in a random draw of members.
Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of The Close-Up.
In more details: Set in LA, The Close-Up features Zoe Ann Weiss, a young British novelist full of promise. But she now has a failed debut under her belt, a mountain of debt, a dead-end job, and an agent who’s about to drop her if she doesn’t write something new and brilliant soon. Worst of all, she’s blocked. But all that changes one night when she runs into her old flame, Zach Hamilton. They start casually dating, and Zach makes her feel like anything is possible. Like the stars have finally realigned themselves in her favour.
The only issue is Zach isn’t just some hot guy with a dream anymore. Now he’s a movie star with billboards and PR people and fans and paparazzi . . . and even though they’re dating in secret, Zoe soon finds herself splashed all over the media. Now everyone seems to know her name.
But the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name . . . including the stalker who’s obsessed with Zach. The stalker who’s re-enacting violent, creepy plot twists from Zoe’s first novel, exactly how she wrote them – except now, she’s the victim . . .
Pip Drysdale is the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know, and The Next Girl. Huge thanks to Harper Collins for these books.
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Last month’s winners: Echo Publishing is sending copies of Opal, the October Crime Stack prize, to: Victoria Baldwin (VIC); Fiona Basile (QLD); Kathleen Burns (NSW); Jane Clifton (VIC); Gaylene B Corben (NSW); Jody Ellis (VIC); Yvonne Fein (VIC); Rowena Harding-Smith (NSW); Audrey Jamieson (VIC); Cathy Koning (VIC); Fiona Malcolm (VIC); Ruth Mary (VIC); Fleur McDonald (WA); Kay McVey (VIC); Lisa Mitchell (QLD); Allison Newchurch (VIC); Margaret Pollock (VIC); Chris Rolfe (NSW); Sally-Maree Scott (WA); and Linda Sengsourinho (WA).
Winners of The Close Up are: Diane Clarke (QLD); Mandy Curties Partridge (QLD); Linda De Fina (VIC); Helen Durling (VIC); Karen Furlong (VIC); Sulari Gentill (NSW); Anne Gracie (VIC); Susan Green (VIC); Dinah Gregory (VIC); Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights (SA); Lesley Hunt (QLD); Suzanne Mason (VIC); Meridith Mckinnon (VIC); Sandra Muller (VIC); Judy Powell (QLD); Madeleine Roberts (NZ); Emma Sachsse (SA); Sally-Maree Scott (WA); Bernadette Williamson (NSW); and Romy Winter (TAS