Suspense Magazine July 2013

R.G.: “One Lost Summer” and “Apostle Rising.” Here are
the publisher’s blurbs:
“One Lost Summer”:
Rex Allen loves star quality in women. He moves into
a new house in a heat wave with few possessions apart
from two photographs of his dead daughter. His nextdoor
neighbor, beautiful Evangeline Glass invites him
over to one of her many summer parties, where he meets
her friends and possessive husband Harry. Rex feels he
knows Evangeline intimately. He starts to spy on her and
becomes convinced she is someone other than who she
pretends to be. When he discovers she has a lover, he
blackmails her into playing a game of identity that ends
in disaster.
“Apostle Rising”:
Detective Chief Inspector Frank Castle never caught the
Woodlands Killer and it almost destroyed him. Now
years later, mauled by the press and traumatized by
nightmares, he is faced with a copycat killer with detailed
inside knowledge of the original case.
He and his partner DI Jacki Stone enter a deadly
labyrinth, and at its centre is the man Castle believes was
responsible for the first killings. He’s running a sinister
cult and playing dark mind games with the police. The
investigation has a shattering effect on the lives of Castle
and Stone. The killer is crucifying politicians, and he
keeps raising the stakes and slipping through their hands.
Dark coded ritualistic killings are being carried out on
high-profile figures and the body count is rising. Castle
employs a brilliant psychologist to help him solve the
case, and he begins to dig into the killer’s psyche. But
some psychopaths are cleverer than others.
“One Lost Summer” is high psychological noir suspense.
“Apostle Rising” is darker and unresolved, and I am
writing the sequel.
S. MAG.: What can you readers and fans expect from
you next Is there something special you’re working
on
R.G.: I have been contracted by Italian publisher Atlantis
to write a miniseries and a novel for Christmas. It takes
place in various European cities, with an emphasis on
the crime of each city and with a Noir feel. Both the series
and novel will be published in English and Italian.
We at Suspense Magazine would like to thank
Richard for taking the time to talk to us and his fans.
To find out more about him, please visit his website at:
www.richardgodwin.net. ■
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