Author Jillian Ward aka Lucy Pepperdine...OFFSHORE.

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The first post is featuring Author Jillian Ward/aka Lucy Pepperdine. and her book...OFFSHORE.

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So…Just who is Lucy Pepperdine?

 A former medicolegal secretary who gave up the 9-5 to pursue her love of writing paranormal romance and horror, Lucy Pepperdine (Jillian Ward) now lives in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, with her writing companion, wee Archie, close by the beach and the harbour. She can often be found tramping the streets of the city looking for inspiration, or hogging a table at the Inversnecky Café turning bacon sandwiches and caffeine into stomach twisting prose. She is also an active fundraiser for Combat Stress and Help for Heroes.

 

Head “OFFSHORE.”

Falcon Bravo oil rig, 250 miles out in the North Sea. Isolated. Forbidding. Dangerous. When a skeleton crew lands to undertake routine maintenance, they soon find they are not the only ones on board and when their number starts to dwindle, they turn on one another. Could one of them be a killer, or is a more deadly entity stalking the walkways. Who can you trust?

Amazon review of Offshore; by Paul T.

There are certain themes in Horror stories which appear regularly - so often that they almost define the genre. Isolated locations. A mixed group of characters, who's varied personalities give a lot of opportunity for sub-plots, whilst also supplying sufficient material for a lot of gory deaths. A monster of some sort - the details slowly being revealed as the plot develops, and each detail being simultaneously more fascinating and more blood-curdling. A steadily increasing tension that rises with the body count. When done well, this structure is very effective - and Lucy Pepperdine does it very well indeed.

But she's added her own twists to the tale. For a start, the isolated location is an oil rig out in the North Sea. The characters are a maintenance crew, and the monster is - well, that would be a spoiler! Suffice it to say that the author has her own variation on the theme, and it's as nasty as any of the usual suspects!

The setting is a brilliant choice for a horror story, and she seems to have done her research - the oil rig is shown in realistic detail. There are also some very vivid sex and violence scenes, which might not be to everyone's taste, but are entirely in keeping with the story. The writing is smooth, absorbing and well-paced, with a lot of twists in the story so that you're never sure what's going to happen next. Well, you may suspect that someone's going to die, but it's never clear who, or how. Or if anyone will survive at all!

 

                                                                      

PURCHASE HERE. http://getbook.at/Offshore

 Other works by Jillian Ward / Lucy Pepperdine www.bluequillbooks.com