by Kathy Childs | Jul 7, 2019 | Book Reviews, Crime, Uncategorized
Crime Thriller, Hachette Australia
You are part of the chain. Your child has been kidnapped and you must abduct someone else’s child to save your own. Don’t break the chain.
Rachel’s daughter Kylie has been kidnapped. She is contacted by another mother whose son has also been abducted. Rachel must pay the ransom and kidnap another child. If she disobeys, breaks the rules or goes to the cops, both children will die.
This is a thrilling read – you follow Rachel’s journey, her highs and lows, and the decisions she makes. Ultimately it leaves you wondering – what would I do?
by Kathy Childs | Jun 23, 2019 | Book Reviews, Crime, Uncategorized
Crime Fiction
Detective Cormac Reilly, having recently transferred to Galway to support his partner’s career, finds himself investigating a recent suicide that appears to have links to a case from his past.
Twenty years ago Cormac was sent to a run down house where he discovered two children, Jack and his sister Maude, alone with their dead mother. Now Jack is dead, an apparent suicide. Maude, however, is convinced that he did not kill himself but the local Garda don’t want to investigate. Cormac is drawn into the case and quickly learns that all is not as it seems.
The storyline is intriguing, the characters well drawn, and the tension at the police station seems very real. This is a story of family, love, betrayal and revenge.
I am already looking forward to reading the next in the Cormac Reilly series.
https://dervlamctiernan.com/
https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460755402/the-ruin/
by Kathy Childs | Mar 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here’s a teaser for my new YA Fantasy novel.
Brianna understood she was different, frighteningly different. First there was the accident with Joey, then an ex friend who exploded, and well, a couple of other mishaps she’d rather not think about.
Caitlin was smart, pretty and popular – everything a seventeen-year-old girl could ask for. Orphaned at birth, she’d been bought up in a loving family, had a good education, a great circle of friends and once she finished high school, she’d be off to college to study medicine. Why then did she feel something was missing?
When Brianna and Caitlin meet they discover a terrible secret. As they learn more, their world starts to unravel and things they believed were myth and legend become very real.
by admin | Feb 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Do Ghosts Have Freckles? – my short story anthology is coming together. I only need five more stories so I’m off to sit in a café and write. Beware, anything I hear or see may be written into one of my stories. Of course, any resemblance to actual persons or actual events in my stories is purely coincidental…..
by admin | Jan 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Stringybark Stories announced today that the Stringybark Short Story Award 2016 will be sponsored by the accommodation provider, Corporate Keys (www.corporatekeys.com.au). This sponsorship allows Stringybark to offer record prize money for their premier competition. In addition Corporate Keys will be placing copies of the printed anthology into their many apartments throughout Australia giving authors a wider audience for their writing. I was interviewed by David Vernon of Stringybark about Corporate Keys sponsorship.
Stringybark Interview with Kathy Childs
Kathy Childs is the Director and Founder of Corporate Keys
by admin | Dec 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Corporate Keys is committed to helping aspiring and emerging Australian authors in their creative endeavours by:
- Placing books by Australian authors in our apartments;
- Partnering with independent publishers to fund prize money for competitions;
- Sponsoring writing events.
www.corporatekeys.com.au
Kathy Childs is the Director and Founder of Corporate Keys
