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Nine
Nine fuses the tension of Robert Bloch's Psycho with the dizzying heights of Hitchcock's Vertigo.
"As Eve Noon drove her car off the ferry and onto the wharf on Mayne Island, she had no idea of the trouble following her."
So begins Nine, the short story adapted from the first scenes of the Will Finch Mystery Thriller, Open Chains.
When Eve and Will Finch consider the death of an Iraqi war vet lying dead on the rocky shore beneath them, they realize that they could be next. As they prepare for a night of terror under the darkness of a new moon, they struggle to pin a name on their tormentor.
All they know is that he was once part of the Ninth Engineer Battalion stationed in Baghdad. From that scrap of information, Eve dubs the attacker "Nine." A name that will haunt her the rest of her days.
"As Eve Noon drove her car off the ferry and onto the wharf on Mayne Island, she had no idea of the trouble following her."
So begins Nine, the short story adapted from the first scenes of the Will Finch Mystery Thriller, Open Chains.
When Eve and Will Finch consider the death of an Iraqi war vet lying dead on the rocky shore beneath them, they realize that they could be next. As they prepare for a night of terror under the darkness of a new moon, they struggle to pin a name on their tormentor.
All they know is that he was once part of the Ninth Engineer Battalion stationed in Baghdad. From that scrap of information, Eve dubs the attacker "Nine." A name that will haunt her the rest of her days.
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D.F. Bailey
21 books116 followersD.F. Bailey is a W.H. Smith First Novel Award and a Whistler Independent Book Award finalist.
His first novel, Fire Eyes was optioned for film. His second novel, Healing the Dead, was translated into German as Todliche Ahnungen. The Good Lie, another psychological thriller, was recorded as a talking book. A fourth novel, Exit from America, made its debut as an e-book in 2013.
In 2015 D.F. Bailey published The Finch Trilogy — Bone Maker, Stone Eater, and Lone Hunter — novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in San Francisco. He is now extending the trilogy in a series of stand-alone novels.
Following his birth in Montreal, D.F. Bailey's family moved around North America from rural Ontario to New York City to McComb, Mississippi to Cape May, New Jersey. He finally "landed on his feet" on Vancouver Island — where he lives next to the Salish Sea in the city of Victoria.
For twenty-two years D.F. Bailey worked at the University of Victoria where he taught creative writing and journalism and coordinated the Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program — which he co-founded. From time to time he also freelanced as a business writer and journalist. In the fall of 2010 he left the university so that he could turn "his pre-occupation with writing into a full-blown obsession."
For more information about D.F. Bailey's books and his free newsletter visit: www.dfbailey.com
His first novel, Fire Eyes was optioned for film. His second novel, Healing the Dead, was translated into German as Todliche Ahnungen. The Good Lie, another psychological thriller, was recorded as a talking book. A fourth novel, Exit from America, made its debut as an e-book in 2013.
In 2015 D.F. Bailey published The Finch Trilogy — Bone Maker, Stone Eater, and Lone Hunter — novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in San Francisco. He is now extending the trilogy in a series of stand-alone novels.
Following his birth in Montreal, D.F. Bailey's family moved around North America from rural Ontario to New York City to McComb, Mississippi to Cape May, New Jersey. He finally "landed on his feet" on Vancouver Island — where he lives next to the Salish Sea in the city of Victoria.
For twenty-two years D.F. Bailey worked at the University of Victoria where he taught creative writing and journalism and coordinated the Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program — which he co-founded. From time to time he also freelanced as a business writer and journalist. In the fall of 2010 he left the university so that he could turn "his pre-occupation with writing into a full-blown obsession."
For more information about D.F. Bailey's books and his free newsletter visit: www.dfbailey.com
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May 20, 2021
The leading chapter of the Open Chains book. Good development - then NADA. Obviously the rest of the book is missing. I was hoping the author could carve out a short story but no such luck.
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