Ik tel tot tien - gratis deel 1: Een geweldige thriller in acht korte delen, lees gratis dit eerste deel

by Linda Green

Dit is het gratis eerste deel van de geweldige thriller Ik tel tot tien. Het boek is verkrijgbaar in acht losse e-books en het complete boek is verkrijgbaar als e-book & als papieren boek.De nachtmerrie van iedere je kind kwijtraken als je even niet oplet...Een, twee, drie... Lisa Dale doet haar ogen dicht en telt, klaar voor een spelletje verstoppertje in de drukke speeltuin. Als ze haar ogen weer opendoet, is haar vierjarige dochter Ella verdwenen zonder een spoor achter te laten...  en niemand heeft enig idee wie de dader kan zijn.Voor de lezers van Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn en Sophie Hannah'Angstaanjagend, briljant plot.' Emily Barr'De spanning bouwt op totdat die niet meer te harden is... Een bijzonder realistisch verhaal dat iedere ouder over z'n schouder doet kijken.' Sunday Mirror'Een ambitieus uitgangspunt dat perfect ten uitvoering is gebracht.' The Lady'Een geweldige en provocerende thriller die onder je huid gaat zitten.' Sun'De plot zit zo slim in elkaar dat je gegarandeerd tot diep in de nacht blijft lezen. Een hele, HELE grote aanrader voor thrillerliefhebbers!' Bookaholicconfessions

41 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 11, 2017

About the author

I was born in North London in 1970 and brought up in Hertfordshire. I wrote my first novella, the Time Machine, aged eight, shortly after which I declared that my ambition was to have a novel published (I could have been easy on myself and just said ‘to write a novel’ but no, I had to consign myself to years of torture and rejections). I was frequently asked to copy out my stories for the classroom wall (probably because my handwriting was so awful no one could read my first draft), and received lots of encouragement from my teachers Mr Roberts, Mrs Chandler (who added yet more pressure by writing in my autograph book when I left primary school that she looked forward to reading my first published novel!) and Mr Bird.

My first publication came when I was thirteen and my Ode to Gary Mabbutt won second prize in the Tottenham Weekly Herald ‘My Favourite Player’ competition. At fifteen I won the Junior Spurs Football Reporter of the Year Competition and got to report on a first division football match from the press box at White Hart Lane (I got lots of funny looks and none of the journalists spoke to me.)

At sixteen I embarked on ‘A’ levels and a journalism course at De Havilland College, Hertfordshire, and my college magazine interview about football hooliganism with local MP and football club chairman David Evans made a double page spread in Shoot! magazine (they never paid me) and back page headlines in several national newspapers (only a nice man at the Daily Star bothered to check the story with me).

I joined my local newspaper, the Enfield Gazette, as a trainee reporter at eighteen. During a ten year career in regional journalism I worked as a reporter on the Birmingham Daily News, news editor on the Birmingham Metro News and Chief Feature Writer on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, winning Highly Commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category of the 1997 Press Gazette Regional Press Awards.

I loved working on regional newspapers but by 1998 my features were getting too long and the urge to write a novel had become too great so I left my staff job to write my first novel and work as a freelance journalist. I have written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times Educational Supplement, The Big Issue, Wanderlust and Community Care Magazine. I’ve also had a short story published in Best magazine

I found the writing and working from home a very solitary process so also worked as co-ordinator of the Birmingham Bureau of Children’s Express, a national charity which runs a learning through journalism programme for young people and taught journalism to schoolchildren for the National Academy of Writing. After I moved north in 2001 I qualified as an adult education tutor and taught creative writing classes to students aged between 18 and 82 for the Workers Educational Association across Calderdale, West Yorkshire.

After more than a hundred rejections from agents for my first novel (and more rewrites than I care to remember) I finally got an agent but still couldn’t get a publisher. I started work on my second novel I DID A BAD THING in 2003, finished the first draft and gave birth to my son Rohan in 2004, rewrote the novel and got a new agent in 2005, obtained a two-book deal with Headline Review in 2006.

I Did a Bad Thing was published in paperback in October 2007, made the top thirty official fiction bestsellers list (and number 3 in Tesco!) and has so far sold more than 77,000 copies. 10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love was published in paperback in March 2009, reached no 22 in the official fiction bestseller charts (and no 4 in Tesco) and has so far sold more than 80,000 copies. Both novels were also long-listed for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

Following the success of my first two novels I got another two-book deal from Headline Review, with Things I Wish I'd Known being the first of these. I am currently working on my fourth novel.

I enjoy travelling.

Reviews

[Anke · Rating 3 out of 5]

best een leuk boek. tikkeltje langdradig halverwege.
het eind werd spannend, maar helaas met een soft eind. een happy end is fijn, maar ik had meer verwacht van dit boek.

[Anke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een goed begin van een boek. Het is een aparte manier van een boek uitgeven, dit eerste ‘deel’ was gratis, de rest is als zeven losse delen te koop of als heel boek.

[Yvonne Reints · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een gratis eerste deel van een boek dat bestaat uit 8 delen. Net op het moment dat het me begint te interesseren houd het op. Ik ben benieuwd naar het vervolg.

[Caitlin Vinke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ik ben erg benieuwd naar het volgende deel!!