Front Page Fridays Week-48
Front Page Fridays Week-48
Welcome to Front Page Fridays Week-48. On Fridays I showcase the first page of a new book.
My Front Page Fridays Week-48 guest is Linda Huber with her brand-new psychological suspense novel, Missing… Rose Malone.
Here’s the opening:
Missing… Rose Malone
It was a grey day, and Tallerton Community Care car park was cheerless to match. Rose Malone inched her elderly Corsa into a tight space at the back and switched off the engine. Dismal concrete cube to her left, slate-coloured high metal fencing to the right and in front a grafitti-laden wall that opened onto a grey street – it was by far the least attractive place she'd ever worked in. But that didn't matter. She swung the rear mirror round for a quick check of her short dark curls and – well. Here she was, day one of her brand new job and back to the beginning, as far as her life went. She’d grown up in Tallarton and after eight years away, she’d returned to her roots.
She stared up at the building. This wasn't where she'd actually be working, fortunately. A carer’s job was to go out into the community to help people cope with daily life in their homes, sometimes after an operation or illness, often because they were old. It was the kind of job where you could make a huge difference to someone’s life just by helping them get dressed and making them poached egg on toast for breakfast.
Rose shivered. She was good at her job; she knew she was because the clients often told her so, but it was hard, sometimes, watching someone suffer after a stroke, or pneumonia, or just because they were old. You didn’t recover as fast when you were eighty, and it was tough for the relatives, too. If there were any. And if there weren’t, it was even tougher.
About Missing… Rose Malone:
Missing. Vanished. Gone?
Josiane Kent is worried. Her friend Rose has posted zero photos on social media all week, despite being on holiday in Edinburgh, the most photogenic city ever. Not only that, she isn’t answering her phone. Something isn’t right. Josiane, along with Rose’s on-off boyfriend Matt and Val, Rose’s boss, starts investigating.
Meanwhile, lone wolf Eddie is mourning his grandad. Grandad always made sure Eddie kept his demons under control, but now, no one is helping and the demons are out.
Rose’s friends continue their search, but it isn’t until human remains are found in Grandad’s old garden that they realise what could have happened to Rose…
Universal Purchase Link:
About the Author:
Linda Huber grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, but went to work in Switzerland for a year aged twenty-two, and has lived there ever since. Her writing career began in the nineties, when she had over fifty short stories published in women’s magazines before turning to full length fiction. She has now written thirteen psychological suspense novels as well as a women’s fiction series under her pen name, Melinda Huber. She enjoys spending time in her adopted home town on the banks of beautiful Lake Constance.
Universal Purchase Links to some of Linda Huber’s Titles
Daria’s Daughter - https://mybook.to/DD24
The Lakeside Hotel series - https://mybook.to/Lakesideseries
I hope you enjoyed reading Front Page Fridays Week-48. Please come back next time when I’ll be featuring a different author and the first page of their book.
And please take a look at books already featured on Front Page Fridays:
1. Blood Ribbons by Lin Le Versha – https://www.rachelsargeant.co.uk/front-page-fridays-week-1/
2. Fatal Blow by Brian Price – https://www.rachelsargeant.co.uk/front-page-fridays-week-2/
3. Can I Trust You? by Rob Gittins – Front Page Fridays Week-3 – Rachel Sargeant
4. The Last Bird of Paradise by AJ Aberford – Front Page Fridays Week-4 – Rachel Sargeant
5. Never Forgive You by Hilly Barmby – Front Page Fridays Week-5 – Rachel Sargeant
6. The Mists of Pencarrack Moor by Terri Nixon – Front Page Fridays Week-6 - Rachel Sargeant
7. The Thief of Joy by Stacey Murray – Front Page Fridays Week-7 - Rachel Sargeant
8. Edge of the Land by Malcolm Hollingdrake – Front Page Fridays Week-8 - Rachel Sargeant
9. The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood - https://www.rachelsargeant.co.uk/front-page-fridays-week-9/
10. The Midnight Man by Julie Anderson – Front Page Fridays Week-10 - Rachel Sargeant
11. Dark Road Home by Sheila Bugler – Front Page Fridays Week-11 - Rachel Sargeant
12. Her Charming Man by Rachel Sargeant – Front Page Fridays Week-12 - Rachel Sargeant
13. Wedding Bells at the Lakeside Hotel by Linda Huber – Front Page Fridays Week-13 - Rachel Sargeant
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