Blog Tour: Micro Thriller Challenge With Rachel Abbot To Celebrate The Release of The Sixth Window

I am super pleased and excited to be welcoming Rachel Abbott back to Novel Kicks and the blog tour for her fabulous new novel, The Sixth Window.

Eighteen months after Natalie Gray loses her husband Bernie in a horrific hit and run accident, she finds love with his best friend, Ed Cooper, and moves into his home with her teenage daughter Scarlett. But she begins to suspect Ed has a dark side –and even darker intentions.

Natalie has to get her troubled child to a safer place, but when Scarlett starts to hear voices coming from the empty apartment next door it seems she has unwittingly moved them into the heart of danger.

DCI Tom Douglas is also chasing the truth. As his investigation into the suicide of a teenage girl draws him ever closer to Natalie and Scarlett, will he be too late to protect them from the threat they face, or from the truths that will tear their lives apart?

For this blog tour we have something special and a little bit different. Rachel and I have co-written a little micro thriller. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing it.

My verdict on The Sixth Window: 

Early one morning, Bernie is walking his daughter’s puppy when he is hit by a car and killed. His widow, Natalie and daughter Scarlett are still trying to pick up the pieces with Natalie’s new boyfriend and Bernie’s best friend, Ed.

When Natalie finds something shocking on Ed’s laptop, she knows things are not over. She needs to get out of Ed’s house. She moves herself and Scarlett into a small flat in the middle of Manchester. Natalie is not sure who she can trust.

Meanwhile, DCI Tom Douglas and DI Becky Robinson are investigating the mysterious death of a teenage girl and this leads them down a rabbit hole where they eventually cross paths with Natalie and Scarlett.

If you’ve read any of my previous reviews of Rachel’s books, you will know that I am a massive fan. So, I was stupidly excited about the release of The Sixth Window and it didn’t disappoint.

There is lots of tension and build up to a finale that I couldn’t predict. I thought I had figured it out and then the next chapter would open up a whole series of questions and I would second guess myself.

It was great to be back with DCI Tom Douglas and DI Becky Robinson again. It was like being back with old friends.
Tom and Becky have another nail biting case to solve. There are many twists and turns to make it easy to want to turn the page.

From beginning to end, I was sucked in. A great rollercoaster of a crime novel that will have you on the edge of your seat. Hurry with the next one, Rachel.

About Rachel Abbott:

Rachel Abbott, who was born and raised in Manchester, founded her own interactive media company in the 1980s, before selling it and retiring in 2005.

She then moved to Italy where she worked on the renovation of a 15th century Italian monastery, and it was here that, one day, she found herself snowed in and decided to begin writing for pleasure. This became her debut novel Only The Innocent, which she went on to publish via Kindle Direct Publishing, topping their chart for 4 weeks.

Abbott has since written The Back Road, Sleep Tight,Stranger Child,Kill Me Again and a novella, Nowhere Child. She splits her time between Alderney in the Channel Islands and Italy.

Rachel is on Twitter. Go over and say hello. She’s really lovely: https://twitter.com/RachelAbbott

She also has a website: http://www.rachel-abbott.com

Her newest novel, The Sixth Window was published in eBook on 21st February 2017 by Black Dot (£3.48) and the paperback is due out in April 2017, £7.99. 

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Laura

I’m Laura. I started Novel Kicks in 2009. I wanted a place to post my writing as well as give other writers like me the opportunity to do the same. There is also a monthly book club, a writing room which features writing prompts, book reviews, competitions, author interviews and guest posts.

I grew up by the sea (my favourite place in the world) and I currently live in Hampshire. I am married to Chris, have a cat named Buddy and I would love to be a writer. I’m trying to write the novel I’ve talked so much about writing if only I could stop pressing delete. I’ve loved writing since creative writing classes in primary school. I have always wanted to see my teacher Miss Sayers again and thank her for the encouragement. When not trying to write the novel or writing snippets of stories on anything I can get my hands on, I love reading, dancing like a loon and singing to myself very badly. My current obsession is Once Upon a Time and I would be happy to live with magic in the enchanted forest surrounded by all those wonderful stories provided that world also included Harry Potter. I love reading chick lit. contemporary fiction and novels with mystery.