To Those Who Killed Me

by J.T. Siemens

There’s hardboiled, and then there’s Sloane Donovan, who never gives up ... even when she definitely should.

Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check—until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her friend’s own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the official narrative, she teams up with Wayne Capson, a PI willing to bend the law, to find out who really killed her friend. The search leads Sloane from Vancouver’s wealthiest enclaves to the street’s darkest corners, questioning millionaires, tennis instructors, sex workers, former police colleagues—anyone who might provide answers. Recalling the works of Jo Nesbø and Gillian Flynn, J.T. Siemens’s To Those Who Killed Me is a debut that provides a heavy dose of hardboiled suspense and introduces a fiery new heroine in crime fiction.

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2022 isbn 10: 1-77439-043-4

isbn 13: 978-177439-043-6

BISAC 1: FIC022010 BISAC 2: FIC022090 BISAC 3: FIC022040 392 pp / 5 x 8 / $21.95 cdn $17.95 usd

“This gritty crime tale, which snakes through Vancouver’s squalid backstreets, plunges the fearless, at times reckless heroine into a surfeit of horrific encounters with addicts and abusers, rapists, and killers. This isn’t for the faint-hearted.”

~ Publishers Weekly

About The Author

J.T. Siemens moved to Vancouver to become a personal trainer, but feels fortunate to have discovered his true love: writing crime fiction. After studying screenwriting at Capilano University, he followed it up with creative writing at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. To Those Who Killed Me, his first book in the Sloane Donovan series, was nominated for the Unhanged Arthur Award. He lives in the West End of Vancouver with his girlfriend and two cats.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• First entry in the Sloane Donovan Mysteries. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy gritty mysteries and crime novels with a female lead.

MARKETING PLAN

• Early ARC and international press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on iTunes, RSS feed, social media, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Ads in Alberta Views (Read Alberta Books Campaign), BC BookWorld, Glass Paper, Library Bound, Prairie Books NOW,

PRISM international, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. • Launch events in Vancouver, as well as online.

MARKETS

• National trade: mystery and thrillers • US and UK trade: mystery and thrillers • Vancouver, BC / urban

COMPARISON TITLES

• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (978-0-307341-57-0, The Crown Publishing Group, 2010) • Invisible Dead by Sam Wiebe (978-0-345816-27-6, Random House, 2016) • Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (978-0-316216-81-4, Little, Brown & Company, 2015)