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Geographically, I do try and do fairly scrupulous research and use real locations. Since I’ve established my heroes as living in my own neighbourhood, that is generally pretty easy (the low hanging fruit principle again), but they do also go roving further afield. And when they do, I’ll research the area, at the very least on Google Maps. If possible, I will visit the locations. My most recent Vinyl Detective novel, Low Action, had to be written in a hell of a hurry, so I set it around Epsom in Surrey. This isn’t far from London, where I live, and I had friend who was a local there who very helpfully drove me around to scout locations. This gave rise to some terrifically vivid sequences in interesting and memorable places. At first, I wasn’t sure about the two halves approach, but actually it makes much more sense than to separate the story into two books. The two halves are one and the same story. When I finished reading book 4 on December 7th of 2021, I was hesitant to start book 5 knowing, from publication dates, that it was the last in the series.
I wasn’t looking forward to this one as much as the previous two. Not because I didn’t want more Vinyl Detective, but more because I spent so much of my adolescence studying The World Wars, that anything to do with them immediately turns me off. It is the reason that I haven’t read or watched ‘War Horse’ or ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. As I was not only a couple of people away from the front of the queue, I decided to put this feeling to one side and carry on with the signing and I have to say, they were both on great form. So friendly and chatty with everyone who came up and presented them with any number of items to sign. Books from each of them, graphic novels they’d written on, Dr. Who posters and other memorabilia, and they signed it all, no restrictions, no limitations and the spoke to everyone in front of them, with interest in their items and their lives. They are genuinely nice guys. Written in Dead Wax story Overall, I think Low Action is the best book in the Vinyl Detective series so far. It has all the the things that made the previous books so enjoyable (cats, humour, music nerdiness, cats, coffee, quirky characters, cats) while at the same time improving on the one outstanding criticism I had with them: believability. Plot: He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others…The very first chapter lays out the overarching mystery of Valerian, her suicide and the missing child.
The Vinyl Detective and his crew solve the mystery of who is trying to kill-off members of a defunct, but influential all female punk band. The series’ obligatory vinyl McGuffin being the band’s rare first, withdrawn album. The Vinyl Detective's friends Erik Make Loud and Helene Hilditch are subject to murder attempts, all of which appear innocent until investigated. The Vinyl Detective and Nevada are asked to help as well as find the recording of their first record. I enjoyed this latest Vinyl Detective story, I 'Liked it' but-for me-it didn't reach the heights of earliest instalments in the series. I felt a nagging desire for something more. This book really took me by surprise. On the face of it, this is a book about a guy hunting for a record. Thrilling right? Well, you’d be surprised, I was! I really enjoyed these books, too. Cannot wait for the next one. I listened to the audio books and they are very well done. Reply
The Vinyl Detective Series Book 3 – Victory Disc
Andrew has also written a couple of books under the title, The Rupert Hood Spy Thrillers, as well as several Dr Who Novels, Novellas and comic books.
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