Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck. And that’s when things start to go wrong. The fugitive she’s assigned to haul back to court is none other than JT, Lori’s former mentor – the man who taught her everything she knows … the man who also knows the secrets of her murky past.
Not only is JT fighting a child exploitation racket operating out of one of Florida’s biggest theme parks, Winter Wonderland, a place where ‘bad things never happen’, but he’s also mixed up with the powerful Miami Mob. With two fearsome foes on their tails, just three days to get JT back to Florida, and her daughter to protect, Lori has her work cut out for her. When they’re ambushed at a gas station, the stakes go from high to stratospheric, and things become personal.
Breathtakingly fast-paced, both hard-boiled and heart-breaking, Deep Down Dead is a simply stunning debut from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.
My Review: Deep Down Dead is the fabulously fast and furious debut from Steph Broadribb. Introducing Lori Anderson, who is a single mom/bounty hunter and can seriously kick-ass at the same time, who finds herself on a job to go after her former mentor JT and has to take her 9 year old daugher along. I was immediately drawn into the storyline and transported into Lori’s world, visualising everything and everyone and even started talking in a “southern accent” (Yee Haw!). This book is seriously addictive and one you can’t put down because you need to know what is going to happen next. If you like action packed, gripping and fast thrillers – then you must read this one next. This book needs to be made into a film/TV series NOW.
About the Author: Steph Broadribb was born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. Most of her working life has been spent between the UK and USA. As her alter ego – Crime Thriller Girl – she indulges her love of all things crime fiction by blogging at www.crimethrillergirl.com where she interviews authors and reviews the latest releases.
Steph is an alumni of the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University London, and she trained as a bounty hunter in California. She lives in Buckinghamshire surrounded by horses, cows and chickens.
DEEP DOWN DEAD is her debut novel.
