The DNA of Murder
You know it is going to be a page-turner when in
the first chapter a strange body turns up in the home of the protagonist, Anna
Cottrell, who is not a spy but just your average school teacher.
After the police accept Anna is not the
murderer and release her, she then discovers that she and the murder victim are
linked and that perhaps her past is not exactly as she was led to believe. What is even more frightening is that those
past secrets could quite possibly place her and her boyfriend Ross in extreme
danger. When he goes missing Anna
determines she must uncover those secrets or she may never see Ross again.
“I am fascinated by what happens when
extraordinary things happen to ordinary people,’’ says Author Jane Isaac. “Apart from the odd parking fine or speeding
ticket, most of our lives are untouched by law enforcement. For ‘An Unfamiliar
Murder’, I played with the idea of a perfectly normal person finding themselves
out of the realms of normality. I
wondered how Anna would feel and react to finding a dead body in her flat and
spending a night in a cell.”
Also attempting to unravel the secrets is
investigating officer, DCI Helen Lavery, an ambitious woman who juggles her
very demanding job life with that of a single Mom to teenage sons. When Anna Cottrell’s murder case lands on her
desk, she soon realizes it is far more complicated than she first
expected. After DNA evidence leads her on
a chase through Anna’s family tree, she begins to fear that if she cannot find
the killer soon there will be more victims.
Readers are certainly taken on a merry chase
following DCI Lavery as she solves the murder. Isaac felt that very early on in
the writing of her debut novel she could do a lot more with Lavery’s character
and is currently working on a sequel to ‘An Unfamiliar Murder’, and there are
also plans for a third book in the series. It would seem that for the new found
fans of Helen Lavery, she will become very familiar to readers in the next few
years.
About Jane
Jane Isaac lives in rural Northamptonshire, UK with her husband, daughter and dog, Bollo. Jane studied creative writing, and later specialist fiction with the London School of Journalism.
Jane blogs about her writing experience, 'Diary of a Newbie Novelist' at www.newbiewriters.com. She is also co-author at the Pyjama Club.
Two of Jane's short stories, Duplicity and Perilous Truths, will appear in Crime Anthologies released in 2012 by Rainstorm Press and Bridge House Publishing. An Unfamiliar Murder is her first novel.
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