Spotlight on Charlotte Bigland
Spotlight on Charlotte Bigland
It’s a challenge for me as an author with a new pen name to gain visibility so I’m grateful to several talented and respected authors – some I know personally; some I don’t know at all – who provided wonderful early reviews of An Ordinary House.
As a thank you to them for taking time out of their busy schedules to read and write about my book, I’m featuring each author on my blog with a spotlight on their work.
Charlotte Bigland is the author of two Amazon bestselling thrillers, published by Embla Books.
The last man I dated... ended up dead.
Jen is a normal, single woman living in a big city. By day, she's a receptionist and by night, she goes on dates. Lots of dates. Because Jen knows if she is going to find true love, it's a numbers game. All of Jen's dates end with the same crushing sense of disappointment and she finds herself silently uttering those five familiar words: 'It's not me, it's you.'
But now it seems Jen is more than just unlucky in love. The police have knocked on her door with some questions for her.
The last five people she went on dates with have been murdered. And Jen is their prime suspect.
As she fights desperately to prove her innocence, she must ask herself, who would have a motive to kill those five people? And if the only thing connecting them is her, will she be next?
They said they killed her. But they didn't - you did.
I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge. All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw. I never meant to hurt her. To push her.
As she lay at the bottom of the stairs, blood pooling around her head, I knew it was the end for me too. I kept expecting the knock on the door, the police, the handcuffs. But it never came.
On the news, they are reporting someone has come forward and confessed to her murder. But that can't be true. Because her killer is me...
Charlotte grew up in the Northeast of England, before moving to London to work as a terrorism insurance broker. When not playing sport, she’s imagining thrilling twists on everyday life to turn them into stories.
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Charlotte had this to say about An Ordinary House:
“An incredible book, with one of the most unique, compelling voices I’ve ever read.”
She’s an author I don’t know, so I was honoured she took the time to read my thriller. Not only did she provide the blurb quote, she also wrote a full review on GoodReads, which included:
“Compelling, sympathetic, nuanced, eye-opening and never gimmicky. I could go on. But it was a really fascinating and thoroughly researched portrayal of the devastating aftereffects of captivity, and the consequences on the cast of characters was thrilling to read about.”