Martin Edwards
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Take My Breath Away
A gripping psychological thriller from a master of the legal mystery
Lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel is intrigued by his friend’s cryptic story about the connections between several strange and sudden deaths; he can’t resist the opportunity to meet with Dylan Rees and hear some more. But at Dylan’s glitzy party, Nic can only watch in horror as his friend is murdered by the ex-girlfriend who had apparently committed suicide over him five years before. Stunned by the brutal attack, Nic vows to discover the meaning behind his friend’s enigmatic tale.
Meanwhile, Roxanne Wake is thrilled to be starting her new job at Creed, the country’s leading human rights law firm. It is a dream opportunity for a young lawyer, but Roxanne has a secret that she dare not tell her new employers - she is determined to keep her past hidden at all costs.
After graduating from The Rose Bruford College, Gordon Griffin worked extensively in the theatre. On TV he has appeared in A Family at War, When the Boat Comes In and Playschool and more recently The Fragile Heart and Byker Grove. His film credits include The Likely Lads, Killing Time and The Gingerbread House. He has recorded almost 200 audiobooks including an award-winning recording of A Tale of Two Cities.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Martin Edwards Born at Knutsford, Cheshire
(setting for Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford") in 1955. Educated at a grammar
school in Northwich and at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking a first class
honours degree in law in 1977. Trained as a solicitor in Leeds and moved to Liverpool on
qualifying in 1980. Published first legal article at the age of 25 and first text book -
on the legal aspects of buying a business computer - at 27. Became a partner in the firm
of Mace & Jones in 1984, Married with two children; now living in Lymm.
WRITING CAREER
My writing falls into four categories:-
- Crime Fiction
I have published five novels about the Liverpool solicitor and amateur detective, Harry
Devlin. The first, All The Lonely People,
was published by Piatkus in 1991 and was short-listed for the John Creasey Memorial Award
for the best first crime novel of the year (the eventual winner was Walter Mosley). I am
currently working on the sixth, The Devil In Disguise. Short stories about
Harry Devlin have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and in various anthologies
and I have also used the short form to experiment with a wide variety of other types of
crime story.
- Crime Anthologies
I conceived and edited two anthologies of crime writing, fact and fiction, for the
Northern Chapter of the Crime Writers Association: Northern
Blood (Didsbury Press;1992) and Northern Blood 2
(Flambard Press;1995). I co-edited with Robert Church a similar volume for the East
Anglian Chapter; Anglian Blood (Rampant Horse Press;1995). I
was then asked to take over as editor of the national CWA anthology, which had failed to
find a publisher during 1995. I decided to establish a new series, with the stories in
each volume linked by a common theme. Perfectly Criminal
(Severn House) appeared in December 1996 and will be followed in 1997 by Whydunit?
- Writing About Crime Fiction
I have written about and reviewed crime fiction for a wide variety of magazines, including
Folio, CADS and MILLION. In addition, I have had essays
published in 100 Great Detectives (ed. Maxim Jakubowski), Twentieth
Century Crime & Mystery Writers (third ed. Lesley Henderson; fourth ed. as St.
James Guide To Crime & Mystery Writers Jay P. Pedersen) and the forthcoming Oxford
Companion To Crime & Mystery Writing (ed. Rosemary Herbert) .
- Legal Writing
I have published six legal books (one as co-author) as well as over 400 articles for
newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Times, Good Housekeeping, Car Mechanics,
International Management and Amateur Gardening. I have also
contributed to a number of multiple-author textbooks, mainly on my specialist subject of
employment law.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Take My Breath Away
(Soundings,
2003)
Nov 03
Suspicious Minds
(Soundings,
1997)
Soundings Jan 97
(Harry Delvin)
All the Lonely People
(
1993)
Soundings 1993
(Harry Delvin)
Take My Breath Away
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