LETTERBOX: FREE ebook

Those of you who follow Black Beacon Books on social media will know that there are regular Kindle promotions. Publishers offer ebooks for free from time to time because it leads to increased paid sales (weird but true!) and because we like to think you'll take the time to leave a rating and review, particularly on Amazon and Goodreads...hint, hint. Anyway, so today only, Saturday the 21st, you can download my first novel, Letterbox, for FREE from Amazon. What it's all about? I'm glad you asked...

Ian Carew is a mild-mannered teacher at the primary school in Mirebury, a quiet town lost in the moors. Six years after leaving London, he's still considered a newcomer, but his elderly neighbour, Mary Hopkins, treats him like a son, and the local butcher, Jack Fuller, is his best friend. All that's missing from Ian’s life is a touch of romance and a dash of adventure. Little does he know, he's about to get a taste of both. When Mary Hopkins opens her letterbox and makes a gruesome discovery, Mirebury is thrown into a state of shock and outrage. At first, the townsfolk assume it was a random act, but the horrible deliveries continue and they're forced to acknowledge they have become the target of a campaign of terror - and nobody’s letterbox is safe.

Is the Postman one of them, or an outsider? Tensions grow as suspicion and accusations tear the town apart. Neighbour is pitted against neighbour and tempers flare. The Postman only strikes at night and moves through the fog like a ghost. Catching him seems impossible, but Mirebury fights back, and in the end, the fate of the town will come down to one man.

 

 

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Welcome to Mirebury

Letterbox is a short novel, but a long story. It began about fifteen years ago with an idea for a truly original suspense novel, and I'm confident that it is indeed original. Take a quiet country town, little more than a village really, preferably in an isolated location, and toss a maniac hellbent on tearing the community apart in there. Now, to make it original, the antagonist mustn't hurt anyone with his own hands, but rather use the locals' underlying tensions and fears to provoke them to violence. How? By making nocturnal deliveries to their letterboxes. 

The result was a rollicking suspense novel full of dark humour and quirky small-town characters. Letterbox was picked up by a small publisher called Naked Snake Press, and (there's no other way to say it) barely made a splash in a bathtub. The publisher later folded (I'd like to assume not as a direct result of publishing my novel) and Letterbox was back in my hands. Armed with experience and invaluable reader feedback (hats off to fellow Australian writer, Anthony Ferguson, in particular), I decided to rework it, and that's just what I did, but I got on with other writing at the same time, including my urban adventure novel, The Tunnel Runner.

Fast forward to 2021, and Letterbox is finally ready to be unleashed once again after major rewrites. The bad news is that I can't really explain the changes to you without spoiling the ending. Suffice to say that Letterbox is now as much a mystery novel as it is a thriller. Think Midsomer Murders with a teacher as the unlikely hero and the craziness turned up a notch or two! 

Welcome to Mirebury. Are you ready to check your letterbox? I dare you!

Ian Carew is a mild-mannered teacher at the primary school in Mirebury, a quiet town lost in the moors. Six years after leaving London, he's still considered a newcomer, but his elderly neighbour, Mary Hopkins, treats him like a son, and the local butcher, Jack Fuller, is his best friend. All that's missing from Ian’s life is a touch of romance and a dash of adventure. Little does he know, he's about to get a taste of both. When Mary Hopkins opens her letterbox and makes a gruesome discovery, Mirebury is thrown into a state of shock and outrage. At first, the townsfolk assume it was a random act, but the horrible deliveries continue and they're forced to acknowledge they have become the target of a campaign of terror - and nobody’s letterbox is safe.

Letterbox is available through all good retailers, including Amazon and Bookshop, or you can order a copy directly from Black Beacon Books. 

LETTERBOX now available in print for just $7.99.

Some very unpleasant deliveries end up in the letterboxes of Mirebury in my debut novel, "Letterbox". However, your letterbox now has the chance to get hold of books for cheaper than before thanks to lowered printing costs. "Letterbox" is now on sale for just $7.99 USD (plus p&h) from Amazon.com, making it five dollars cheaper than before!

Throughout the month of August I am giving my readers who have read my debut novel "Letterbox" the chance to receive a free copy of my novella "Let Darkness Take Hold". All you have to do is let me know what you thought about "Letterbox" by writing a review on your FB page, blog, Smashwords, Goodreads or other review site and then letting me know about it.

You can buy your e-copy of "Letterbox" from Amazon, Smashwords or Nook for just $0.99 US.