Don’t You Dare
Today I am pleased to be able to
participate in the blog tour for Don’t You Dare by A J Waines. My thanks go to Sarah Hardy at Bloodhound Books.
About the Book
What if your daughter becomes your
enemy?
When barmaid, Rachel, discovers her
soon-to-be-married daughter, Beth, pinned down by a stranger in the pub
cellar, Rachel lashes out in panic and the intruder ends up dead. In
desperation, Rachel convinces Beth they should cover up the crime and go ahead
with the planned wedding in one month’s time.
Rachel, however, has her own reasons
for not involving the police.
Hiding their dreadful secret is
harder than they both imagined and as the big day approaches and the lies
multiply, Beth becomes a liability. Rachel looks on in dismay at the hen party
when, after too many drinks, Beth declares she’s about to make a special
announcement. But before Beth can say a word, she disappears...
When two people share a chilling
secret, can both hold their nerve?
This book explores the dark side of a mother-daughter relationship when
pushed to the limit.
It will appeal to fans of authors like Ruth Ware, Clare Mackintosh and
C.L. Taylor.
Guest Post
Grab a comfy seat and a nice
drink and sit down to joint me as A J Waines talks about her new edge-of-the-seat Psychological Thriller.
To start with I can inform you that AJ Waines was a
London psychotherapist, often working with ex-offenders, before she began
transforming her experiences into gripping material for her own Psychological
Thrillers. With her seventh novel about to be released, she has sold over
450,000 books and has been a number one bestselling author in the entire UK and
Australian Kindle charts. Fascinated by secrets, lies and anything hidden under
floorboards, she writes sinister suspense thrillers with mind-bending twists at
the end!
Now
let me hand over to A J Waines.
You latest book is called Don’t you Dare - what is it about?
In Don’t you Dare, a mistake, then a
misunderstanding leave a mother and daughter trapped in a terrible dilemma that
will affect their lives forever. Neither of them plans to commit a crime, but
due to the way events unfold, something terrible takes place that sends their lives
spiralling out of control. Don’t you Dare
also explores what happens when two people are forced to share a chilling
secret and one of them loses their nerve. It’s the kind of situation that
almost anyone could find themselves in!
It’s perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, C.L
Taylor and Clare Mackintosh!
Can you give
us the opening sentences?
I knew something was wrong the moment I slipped the key into the lock.
A light was visible through the keyhole. I teased the door open a
fraction and stopped dead. The fluorescent strip light wasn’t the source,
instead there was a dim glow at the far end of the cellar…
What inspired you to write this book?
I’ve always been fascinated by what makes people tick. In my work for
fifteen years as a psychotherapist, I was privileged to gain access to clients’
hidden inner worlds, helping them explore the motives for their actions, the
things they feared, the things they were ashamed of. These themes are present
in all my novels. In Don’t you Dare,
I particularly wanted to look at the changing dynamic between
a mother and daughter after something terrible happens. It starts off with a simple misunderstanding – the
kind of misjudgment any one of us could make and there’s a big twist at the
end!
What lies below the surface of
this book?
In Don’t you Dare, I wanted to
show the different ways Rachel (mother) and Beth (her twenty-three-year-old
daughter) cope in covering up a dreadful crime. A battle of
wills unfolds as Rachel takes charge and Beth turns into a liability. It poses
all kinds of moral dilemmas, such as: How can you make your daughter understand
your rash actions when you can’t possibly tell her the truth? How do you stop her
from blurting out your crime when she’s the queen of oversharing? It’s a
nail-biting ride!
How many books have you written?
Don’t you Dare will be my seventh novel and there will be another
later in 2018, the third in my series, featuring Dr Samantha Willerby. The
books can be read in any order, even the series books, which can also stand
alone:
The Evil
Beneath
Girl on a
Train
Dark Place
to Hide
No Longer
Safe
Inside the
Whispers (Dr Samantha Willerby Series, Book 1)
Lost in the
Lake (Dr Samantha Willerby Series, Book 2)
What is your work schedule like?
I’m at my desk at around 8am and
apart from a mini break at lunch, I tend to stay there all day and have to be peeled away from my keyboard
when it’s supper time. I take notebooks with me everywhere if I need to go out,
and I’m always jotting down ideas, but I can never focus in a park or coffee
shop to do the real work. I wish I could! I can only work at home in my study
with nothing but silence around me. For some jobs (answering emails, monthly accounts),
I can have music playing (Mozart’s Requiem is a favourite), but not during the
creative cycle itself, such as plotting, drafting, editing. My work involves
many different areas, including interviews and social media publicity, so it’s
incredibly varied and I never get bored.
Don’t you Dare will be published by Bloodhound Books on May 8th
and is
available from all Amazon outlets.
Find AJ Waines’ books here, visit her website and blog, or join
her on Twitter, Facebook or get
her Newsletter.
About the Author
AJ Waines has sold over 450,000 books worldwide and
topped the UK and Australian Kindle Charts in 2015 & 2016 with her number
one bestseller, Girl on a Train. Following fifteen
years as a psychotherapist, she is now a full-time novelist with publishing
deals in UK, France, Germany, Norway, Hungary and USA (audiobooks).
Her fourth psychological
thriller, No Longer Safe, sold over
30,000 copies in the first month, in thirteen countries. AJ Waines has been
featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Times and has
been ranked a Top 10 UK author on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct
Publishing). She lives in Hampshire, UK, with her husband.
Social Media Links
Website www.ajwaines.co.uk
Newsletter http://eepurl.com/bamGuL
Bookbub: www.bookbub.com/authors/a-j-waines
Check out the rest of the blog
tour with these fabulous blogs:
There’s a couple of my favourite
bloggers joining me on this tour and I cannot wait to hear their thoughts and
review. I for one have added this to my
list and will be reading soon, so make sure you keep an eye on my blog for my review.
My thanks to AJ Waines for joining me on my blog today, the publishers Bloodhound Books and also Sarah Hardy for
my spot on the blog tour.
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