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Friday, February 8, 2019
books
Bahamian queen of suspense returns with crime thriller
Tanya R Taylor wins spot in Amazon Prime’s reading programme By FAY KNOWLES
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est-selling Bahamian author Tanya R Taylor’s has released the second book in her Nick Myers series, “One Dead Politician: A Crime Thriller With An Unexpected Twist”, and it has already climbed to No 30 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Political Thrillers and Suspense list. In “One Dead Politician”, “corruption, scandals and kickbacks all make for good politics, and murder. And on February 17, the author will release “Wicked Little Saints (The Cornelius Saga Book 11)”. Ms. Taylor said readers can now reserve a copy on Amazon at a special pre-order price. “Wicked Little Saints” will be her 24th published book. Ms Taylor’s popular Cornelius Saga series has attracted the attention of Amazon’s US Prime reading programme. This programme is intended to promote authors and their books to Amazon’s most engaged customers. Amazon informed Ms Taylor: “We have a limited number of spots available in the
The 11th instalment in the Cornelius Saga will be released on February 17. US programme and are delighted to offer you the opportunity to increase visibility for your title ‘Cornelius: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery (The Cornelius Saga Book 1)’.” In her upcoming release, “Wicked Little Saints”, not everything is as it appears in the sparsely populated town of Nirvana. Three years earlier before the story stars, a bus full of middle grade
school children went missing under mysterious circumstances. Rachelle Wigby has just had her second nervous breakdown due to the unknown whereabouts of her daughter, Priscilla. Dr Barns, Rachelle’s estranged brother, feels it’s time someone got to the bottom of what happened to his niece. Elsewhere, Dr Mira Cullen is made aware of the plight of her boss’s family and feels
compelled to help in any way she can. After embarking upon the investigation using nothing but the unusual gifts she was born with, she will attempt to bring this puzzling mystery to a satisfactory close. The question is, what kind of unfathomable and disturbing secrets will she uncover along the way? Meanwhile, the crime thriller “One Dead Politician” is described by readers as “gripping,
fast-paced” and suspenseful. The book follows Detective Nick Myers of the Los Angeles Police Department who is sent hundreds of miles away to impart his specialised training and modernised investigative techniques to the police force in a small Caribbean nation. There, he finds himself unexpectedly entangled in political rifts that will ultimately result in a prominent politician losing his life. Myers’ expertise as a top detective will be put to the test as he sets out to solve the mystery behind who would want Jackson Cunningham dead – a man he’d met and admired. What he discovers in the end will come as a complete surprise, not only to the citizens of the developing nation, but also to him as a seasoned investigator. Ms Taylor is the author of several No 1 best-sellers across the various Amazon stores. All of her books have made Amazon Kindle’s Top 100 Paid Bestsellers’ List in several categories, some next to Dean Koontz and the “Master of Horror” Stephen King.