Xion Island Zero by Katherine Black - Out Now!

I'm very pleased to announce that Katherine Black (our very own Sooz Simpson) has just published Xion Island Zero, the sixth in her Inspector Nash series. 

Here's a review by celticman and a link to buy:

Xion Island Zero is the sixth in the Inspector Nash series. You don’t need to know much about Nash as each book is a standalone. Five serial killers down. One to go.

What remains consistent is place—Barrow (where the author lives).

Nash also has to stay consistently inconsistent. True to himself, the criminal justice system and its values.

When he’s outed as being gay the distance between what he believes and what he does lengthens. Those who track and catch killers are traditionally depicted as mavericks.

Clarice Sterling, for example, a new recruit hoping to join the boy’s club of the FBI in Silence of the Lambs.  

The reader knows she will win, but it’s what she loses and the journey itself which holds our interest.

The hook or inciting incident in Xion Island Zero is a declaration of war against humanity.

Travis Bernstein, aged 30, filled with hate.

He’s all things bright and beautiful. A perfectly psychopathic and brilliant biochemist. He works in  the Fort Know-how—of biological engineering, Xion Island research facility.

His weapon of choice  Ammybloma Americanum, the Lone Star tic. ‘My beautiful monster’.

24 hours, nausea, vomiting, cramps. 72 hours—death.

Hazmat paper suits, masks, shoe cover. All the things we’re familiar with from the Covid crisis.

There will be blood. Deaths. Misunderstandings. The life of the protagonist will be in the hands of the killer—no backup, no support—as Clarice Sterling’s was, so shall Nash’s in this genre be.

The ugly truth will be revealed. Justice will be served hot and cold. You will keep turning the pages until as sated as the Lone Star tic. Read on.   

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FXXW76R1(link is external)