If you picked up The Boat House during the 48-hour giveaway – and it cheers me that so many of you did – I hope you’ll enjoy the read. Did you know that, a year or two after the book came out, it was almost a movie with Jude Law and Milla Jovovich? My agent still sends out my screenplay as a writing sample, sometimes. It’s about the only use I can get out of it now, given the turnaround costs that have been run up against it.

You can read that story here.

If you feel the urge to go back to Amazon and add your review, I wouldn’t discourage you. 

I’ll probably liberate another free book from the backlist in a few weeks, but this time I’ll be more businesslike about it and tie it in with the UK paperback launch of The Bedlam Detective.