Nick Louth (Author of The Body in the Marsh)

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Nick Louth

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Thriller, Nonfiction, Humor and Comedy

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Graham Greene, William Boyd and John Le Carre

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Nick Louth is a freelance journalist and author, based in Lincolnshire UK.

Before beginning writing fiction, he was a foreign correspondent for Reuters news agency, and a regular contributor to the Financial Times, MSN, and many financial magazines.

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A friend told me she'd heard you've got a new book coming out? Is this true? We both loved Heartbreaker and Bite! thanks

Nick Louth I'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror 鈥辞谤别I'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror Mirror. Here's the blurb.

Helmand campaign veteran Virgil Bliss is used to earning a living under fire, in dirt, heat and cold. So when he is offered a lucrative job in London as close protection officer to one of the world鈥檚 most beautiful women, he can hardly believe his luck. How hard can it be?

Twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, her rise to celebrity and wealth comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life.

But celebrity extracts a price. Mira is assailed on all sides. Trailed by those who adore her, threatened and stalked by strangers online, and beaten up by a man she trusted. Virgil finds this isn鈥檛 the cushy number he imagined. Her home isn鈥檛 safe, her friends can鈥檛 be trusted, and her freedoms melt away. Then there is the enigma of the woman herself: where does the image end and the person begin?

As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain鈥檚 most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with Mira. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never been revealed to the public. But his plans to possess a unique beauty are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work.
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Nick Louth I love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten the鈥辞谤别I love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten them, elicit sympathy, love or hatred - all through the power of the words you deploy. What a privilege! It's the best job in the world. (less)

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	The Body in the Marsh (DCI Craig Gillard #1) 4.20 avg rating — 8,840 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body on the Shore (DCI Craig Gillard #2) 4.10 avg rating — 3,040 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bite 3.58 avg rating — 3,462 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body in the Snow (DCI Craig Gillard #4) 4.20 avg rating — 2,064 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body in the Mist (DCI Craig Gillard #3) 4.10 avg rating — 1,864 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Under the Bridge (DCI Craig Gillard #5) 4.29 avg rating — 1,588 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bodies at Westgrave Hall (DCI Craig Gillard #7) 4.26 avg rating — 1,536 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body on the Island (DCI Craig Gillard, #6) 4.16 avg rating — 1,500 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Beneath the Willows (DCI Craig Gillard #9) 4.16 avg rating — 1,205 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body on the Moor (Craig Gillard #8) 3.87 avg rating — 1,112 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The mystery of sales figures

Just yesterday evening I discovered that my indie thriller, Bite, had gone from selling a few dozen copies in a month to over 20,000 which makes it the top-selling medical thriller on Amazon UK.

We've been playing around with the e-book price a lot, trying to figure out where the demand curve is. The bulk of the sales must be on the giveaways. Clearly zero is Read more of this blog post »

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DCI Craig Gillard (12 books)
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Nick Louth answered Jannelies (living between hope and fear)'s question: Hi Nick! I discovered your excellent Craig Gillard series on Storytel, a few weeks ago. Due to eye surgery I couldn't read at all, but I just loved the way Marston York read The Body in the Marsh so I downloaded the other books in this series. I'm reading book 8 now, because my eyesight is slightly better, and after this one I'm planning to read book 12 because I was granted a review copy for this title. To be cont? Hi Jannelies, I do apologise for the delay in replying. (I've only just discovered I ticked the box to answer readers' questions.) First of all, thank you for listening to my books! Book 12 of Gillard is the last one, though I may yet add another. The See Full Answer
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“All worthwhile developments take time. Poverty of ambition is the heaviest chain on man鈥檚 soul.”
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“his first day at Pharmstar, Mazzio had sat in when Iron Jack briefed newly-hired business school graduates on strategy. 鈥業 want the next Prozac or Valium, the next Lipitor or Zantac,鈥� Jack had said, striding up and down, his big voice booming across the hall. 鈥業 want you to scour the world for billion-dollar-a-year blockbusters. Between you and me you can screw the cure for cancer as a financial proposition. What we need are treatments, not cures. Treatments that patients take every day, year in, year out. The clinical areas are obvious: depression, migraine, back pain, arthritis, cholesterol control, weight control. And the target market is only one: first world and affluent.”
― Nick Louth, Bite

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“Lies and truth share a narrow bed, like birth and death, pain and pleasure.”
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