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Geoff Smith

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Born

in Wellingborough, The United Kingdom

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Crime, Thriller, Mystery

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May 2015

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Follow or friend, if you like Noir, like me.

I'm Geoff Smith and I'm a writer of Noir and Pulp style crime fiction. I am currently working on my first novel, 'Burning Crowe'. It's a British noir private eye novel with a teenage protagonist.

In the 1990s I was a waster. I'd dropped out of university - twice - I'd been too damned shy to get into groups with the cool kids.

Back in Kent, in dead end jobs I got my shit together. I did Literature at night school, and then at university in Canterbury. I took a PGCE and now I work as an English teacher in Hertfordshire.

I live with my wife and young son near Chelmsford and Harlow in Essex.

On Goodreads you can find me at the Pulp Fiction group, which I totally recommend if you, like me, like Noir. ...more

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Burning Crowe for free this May

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This half-term, end of May, I want you to enjoy my novel, 'Burning Crowe' for free. So download it. Read it if you want to. And if you love it, maybe you could review it too!

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Geoff’s Quotes

“letting myself be transported by her smile, the shape of her lips, the dimples in her cheeks, the astonishing mobility of her face. Looking at her, and feeling her knee against mine, gave me a chance not to think.”
― Jean-Claude Izzo, Total Chaos: Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy

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“We’re slaves, not idiots. That’s all you have to understand.”
― Jean-Claude Izzo, Total Chaos: Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy

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“After the love, I went back on the other side of my border. Back to the territory where I have my own rules, my own laws, my own code, and my own stupid obsessions. The territory where I lose my way, and where I lost the women who ventured onto”
― Jean-Claude Izzo, Total Chaos: Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy

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“After the love, I went back on the other side of my border. Back to the territory where I have my own rules, my own laws, my own code, and my own stupid obsessions. The territory where I lose my way, and where I lost the women who ventured onto it.”
― Jean-Claude Izzo, Total Chaos: Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy

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“That sense of some distant, unknown country from where she’d come and toward which she seemed to want to return.”
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