About

Escaping the madness of motherhood through writing and reading crime novels. My debut novel, Last Seen, featuring DI Bernadette Noel, was published on 26th March 2021 by Bookouture. The sequel, Broken Girls, was published 27th July 2021, and the third in the series, Left For Dead, came out 10th January 2022. I was shortlisted for the best new series in the Dead Good Reader Awards in 2022. I’m represented by Anne Williams at KHLA.

Follow me on Twitter @JoyKluver or look for my Joy Kluver Author page on Facebook. And I’m now on also on Instagram.

I’m part of the team for First Monday Crime. Due to the pandemic, our author events are currently online on our Facebook page.

I also interview authors for the Friends of West Barnes Library. Again, our events are currently online but can be found on the Friends YouTube Channel.

*REVIEW POLICY* Due to my toppling TBR pile and writing commitments, I’m not able to accept any unsolicited review requests at present. Apologies.

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  1. Hi. My name is Henry. I work for Crime Wave Press, an independent publisher of crime fiction.

    I recently found you on Twitter. From there I discovered your website and hoped to interest you in joining the Crime Wave Press review team.

    http://www.crimewavepress.com

    Reviewers can get free copies (mobi or pdf) of our titles, and we will contact you to offer new releases when they become available.

    Would you like to review one of these new releases?

    Fancy a Tarantino-esque romp through America’s criminal underbelly by a Hollywood screenwriter? Then check out Riding Shotgun & Other American Cruelties by Andy Rausch. This is what Peter Leonard (author of Voices of the Dead) had to say about Andy’s writing:

    “Andy Rausch has written a tight, taut crime thriller that’ll have you on the edge of your seat. I can see my father’s [novelist Elmore Leonard] influence in his prose.”

    Tony Knighton has come up with a worthy successor to his gripping short story collection Happy Hour. Tony’s debut novel Three Hours Past Midnight is a tour de force of storytelling, brutal action and high wire emotions.

    “With a classic heist goes wrong set up, Tony Knighton takes us on a violent, danger-strewn tour through the night time streets of Philadelphia. Everyone has an angle, no one gives an inch. Fans of David Goodis and Richard Stark should love this one.”
    — Scott Adlerberg, author of Graveyard Love”

    If you’d like to review any of our titles we will be pleased to send you the relevant file(s).

    Regards,

    Henry
    PR Manager @crimewavepress Crime Wave Press

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  3. Hi Joy,

    I hope this message finds you well.

    My name is Lynsay. I’m a PR Account Executive for Muckle Media, a PR and communications agency based in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

    I’ve got an exciting new crime thriller I thought you might be interested in for review – the latest book from Mark.P.Wright – A Traitor to His Blood.

    It’s a gritty crime thriller which follows the exploits of Bajan detective JT Ellington, who’s asked to help find the wife of a locally respected Baptist minister who vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind both her family and a critically fragile premature infant daughter!

    This is the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical crime fiction series after what was meant to be a trilogy grew in popularity!

    Best-selling crime novelist, Mark Billingham, describes the Windrush noir series as ‘terrific crime fiction – evocative, socially aware and gripping – and JT Ellington is a compelling protagonist’.

    If you would like to see the full synopsis and are interested in receiving a copy for review please do let me know.

    Take care,

    Lynsay

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