[#BlogTour & Giveaway] Q&A for Vengeance by Roger A. Price @RAPriceAuthor @emmamitchellfpr #CrimeFiction #Thrillers

Hey Everyone! How’s your day going? Today is my stop for the Vengeance blog tour, and I have a special Q&A session.


What is the most important item you require for a quiet night in?

Vodka, oh, and a good book.

Is it best to always tell the truth or is it sometimes better to tell a little white lie?

Depends how much soft stuff one is in? I tend to be too honest, but if you can spare someone’s feelings with a tad porky, why not?

What’s your signature dish?

The occasional fry-up.

Do you prefer Twitter or Facebook, why?

Probably Facebook, it feels more personal. Twitter feels like you are talking to yourself, unless you are mega famous.

Which book character do you wish you had written?

Jack Reacher.

Why did you write a book?

The desire has always been there, and when I left the police I finally had the time to do it/no more excuses not to (delete as appropriate). But having tested whether I can tell a story, I’m now driven to do so. In fact I’m almost depressed when I’m between projects.

Why did you choose your particular genre?

I love reading crime fiction and thrillers and as my background is from covert and overt detective work I thought I’d stick to what I know – which also means less research, hopefully.

If you had to write in a different genre, which would you choose?

An author friend of mine in Canada says I should try Young Adult, so maybe I’ll give that a try one day.

What’s the worst thing about writing a book?

Actually, knuckling down to get the words on the page.

What’s the best thing about writing a book?

Actually, knuckling down to get the words out, it is a very love/hate relationship. Always challenging but so rewarding when done.

If you could be anyone for the day, who would you be?

Any one of the astronauts in the International Space Station.


Vengeance by Roger A. Price

Blurb:

Jack Quintel is a hit man. When a job comes in to kill the Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police Jim Reedly, he contracts it out to a new guy, Charlie Parker. Watching in the shadows, Quintel sees Parker shoot out Reedly’s windscreen, then drag him into the woods and thinks the job’s been done. But when Parker tries to pass off a pig’s heart as Reedly’s, things start to go very wrong. Jack’s right hand man Jason kills Charlie, who it turns out is an undercover police officer.

Detective Vinnie Palmer is with the Preston police. He was called in when they received the information about the impending hit. Now he has to figure out how to clean up the mess. And he wants whoever killed Parker bad. He finds the man who put Parker in touch with Quintel, a low life hood named Dempter, living in an estate in Preston. He doesn’t know much, but motivated by money, agrees to be an informant for the police.

Christine Jones is a TV reporter. She and Vinnie had worked together before, chasing a serial killer. They meet again at the warehouse where Charlie was killed, and realise their relationship could be more than professional. But first, Christine wants to know what’s happening. Vinnie agrees to keep her in the loop.

Meanwhile, Christine is working on a documentary about positive discrimination against non-Catholic officers in Northern Ireland since the peace process. She makes contact with a former police officer in Northern Belfast named Paul Bury, who feeds her some of the information she needs.

Meanwhile, as the bodies start to pile up in Preston, there’s another attempt on Reedly’s life, when a grenade is thrown at him at his brother in law’s funeral. As Vinnie fights to keep Reedly alive, suddenly Christine’s life is in danger. And they both start to wonder if the contract against Reedly has anything to do with her documentary on Northern Ireland. But how could it?

Filled with twists and turns and gritty detail, this is must read for crime fans everywhere.

Purchase links:

UK: https://goo.gl/oxy9BI

US: https://goo.gl/NSeSZi

CAN: https://goo.gl/a6MEQe

AUS: https://goo.gl/ku28Ox

My name is Roger A. Price a crime fighter turned crime writer. I used to right the wrongs but now I write the wrongs. Ok, enough with the puns, but I do love language and playing with it, I guess all writers do.

I spent over thirty years in the police retiring as a detective inspector in charge of a covert undercover drugs unit which achieved national acclaim. I served on various units and squads and saw service across the UK, Europe and beyond. I can’t write about those events but I can base my crime fiction writing from my many experiences of them. Some of which were good, some not so good.

My first two novels are in the ‘Burrows and Lee’ series; ‘By Their Rules’ and ‘A New Menace’ and chart the adventures of Jane Lee and John Burrows in their work for the secretive ‘Special Projects Unit’ where they take on the bad guys with no rules of engagement.

‘NEMESIS’ is the first in the new ‘Badge and the Pen’ series which follows the fortunes of detective inspector Vinnie Palmer who finds an unlikely ally in TV news reporter Christine Jones, as they chase common threats but from very different agendas. This book was an Amazon Bestseller for a while in Canada and Australia and has received rave reviews in the UK.

‘VENNGEANCE’ is the second outing for Vinnie and Christine in the ‘Badge and the Pen’ series where they both face the most unlikely of threats, as they race to save lives.

I have also had a couple of short stories published and am trying to write for TV whilst currently also working on my next Badge and the Pen novel.




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