Perpetual Check
- Publisher
- Bear Hill Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2019
- Category
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781775074182
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $10.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781775074175
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $10.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781775074168
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $18.41
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"Perpetual Check is a page-turner with a resolution readers won’t see coming. It will please anyone who appreciates interesting characters and mysteries that deliver the unexpected." ~ BlueInk, Starred Review
It’s 1985, and to get away from her domineering mother, Dani Morden travels to England with her cream tea-drinking aunt, Lucy. She anticipates a week of touring museums, and being bored silly.
What she gets is murder, espionage, and running from unknown killers who are convinced she has something they want.
Dani faces dangerous people, hate-fueled by bitter Cold War politics, but to get her and her aunt out alive, she will need to confront the bitterness that festers inside her first.
A fast-paced and fun story straddling cozy mystery and lighthearted character-driven drama, reminiscent of an 1980’s John Hughes film. PERPETUAL CHECK takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the past, following characters they would have come across on their travels, just as they would remember them.
"Clever and surprising, Perpetual Check is a thrilling novel set during the intersection between the decline of the Soviet Union and the dawn of the computer age." ~ Clarion, Foreword Reviews
About the author
Contributor Notes
F. Nelson Smith spent her career submerged in the numbers, working as a Certified Managerial Accountant. She now lives in Red Deer, Alberta, drowning in words, writing mystery novels. Perpetual Check is her second novel published by Bear Hill Publishing.
Excerpt: Perpetual Check (by (author) F. Nelson Smith)
Someone was outside the door. Lucy’s heart scudded across her chest. Her eyes riveted on the doorknob, she walked forward and put her hand against the door panel, peering through the small peephole. Nothing. For a moment she stood, then grasping the handle of the door, she turned the lock wincing at the small snick it made.
Taking a deep breath, she turned the knob and pulled the door inward, intending to open it only a crack and peer into the corridor. Her grip loosened from a solid counterbalance on the other side, forcing her back as the door flung open.
Miss Schmidt fell at her feet. Protruding from her chest was the metal-edged, black handle of a knife.
Editorial Reviews
"Perpetual Check is a page-turner with a resolution readers won’t see coming. It will please anyone who appreciates interesting characters and mysteries that deliver the unexpected." ~ BlueInk, Starred Review
"Clever and surprising, Perpetual Check is a thrilling novel set during the intersection between the decline of the Soviet Union and the dawn of the computer age." ~ Clarion, Foreword Reviews
"An espionage thriller that follows the genre’s form while also adding some unique wrinkles and scenery all its own." ~ IndieReader