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2000s: When paths cross, which way do you go?
Dead Hope
What you need to know before your trail
Cat Hope doesn’t want to go to prison. She needs a job, and she needs it fast: judge’s orders.
Kay Mahon, office worker by day and hacker by night, is on the run from a past life that he’d rather not remember.
When their paths cross, they begin to investigate the truth behind the deaths of Cat’s parents, the successful rock star couple Jackie and Adam Hope. Little do they know that their quest is putting Cat in grave danger.
Travel Guide
Littleby, East Yorkshire
Littleby in Yorkshire is fictional but it’s where this crime thriller with a difference.
There is a soup kitchen for the homeless in Littleby on Station Road where Judge Peterson has placed Cat for her community service.
Cat has been sent here to this small northern town with a new identity – Annabelle Smith. She finds a lowly job in a digital company. Fellow worker Kay takes pity on her and helps her get settled, she intrigues him, it is obvious to him that she’s running away from something. Not that he can judge, his own background isn’t very rosy. This is a world of computer hacking and the world of data storage. A world away from your normal crime scene novel but one where Nicky more than adds a little rock chick attitude into the novel as well.
Booktrailer Review
Rachel – Rachel’s Random Reads
I found that Dead Hope was a book that intrigued me from the opening and as it proceeded I became more and more gripped, until I could barely put it down.
This is to my knowledge Nicky Well’s first book that deals with more thriller like elements, and it has been written really well. It won’t necessarily appeal to die hard crime/thriller fans, but for those that like those harder hitting elements in with their story, you have come to the right book.
It starts off not sedately, but by appearing to be a completely different sort of story to what it turns into. From a book about two people that are both hiding things, but have realised they may have some sort of connection, and happen to work together, into something that had my heart racing, as the danger level ramps up.
I thoroughly enjoyed Dead Hope from start to finish, and found it was just the book I needed to get myself out of a slightly reading slump, that I was falling into. It has completely revitalised my enjoyment of reading, and I can only thank Nicky Wells for that.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Dead Hope
Author/Guide: Nicky Wells Destination: East Yorkshire, “Littleby” Departure Time: 2000s
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