About
Kim Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada. Trained as a legal assistant, Kim has been a story-teller all her life but took many detours including; working in legal and adult education before returning to her first love, writing.
Her debut romantic suspense, REFLECTION, has won numerous awards:
*RomCon®'s 2014 Readers' Crown Finalist (Romantic Suspense)
*InD'tale Magazine 2014 Rone Award Finalist (Suspense/Thriller)
*UP Authors Fiction Challenge Winner (2013)
*Silicon Valley's Romance Writers of America (RWA) "Gotcha!" Romantic Suspense Winner (2004)
*Honourable Mention in Calgary's (RWA) The Writer's Voice Contest (2006).
LETHAL JOURNEY won RomCon®'s 2014 Readers' Crown (Thriller) and was a finalist in From the Heart Romance Writers (FTHRW) Golden Gate Contest (2003).
Her action-packed thrillers have been highly praised by reviewers and readers. As one reviewer said, "Buckle up, Hang on tight!"
Kim recently entered the true crime writing arena. Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (two short stories)was published in January 2014. You can read her latest true crime stories in Serial Killer Quarterly, a new quarterly e-magazine published by Grinning Man Press.
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Description
<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style."</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
The story evolved after Clonaid (a company founded by the religious sect called the Raelians, announced the birth of Eve, the "first human clone" in 2002 using the similar technique to clone, Dolly the Sheep.
About 160 nations in the world have yet to outlaw the birth of human clones and others are allowing the creation of human clones as long as they are not put into a woman's womb (how do we know they aren't implanted?), add a kick-ass heroine, a sexy FBI agent, and a villain you love to hate, thus, REFLECTION was born.
Reviews
<p><span>"</span><span><span>Reflection is a deeply emotional romantic suspense that starts bold and holds you captive to the very end."</span></span><i><span></span><span><b>--</b></span><span><b>New York Times</b></span><span><b></b></span></i><span><span><b>Bestseller, </b></span></span><span><span><b>Dianna Love</b></span></span><br /><br />
"This was definitely an intriguingly phenomenal read. Cresswell is an amazingly captivating and suspenseful storyteller who is able to switch gears at the flip of the hat."<b></b><i><span><b>--</b></span></i><b><b>Pure Jonel Book Reviews</b></b><br /><br />
"Cinematic writing, powerful visuals, sleek, fast, utterly sexy, notches above anything we have read before!" <b><i><span><b>--</b></span></i>UP Authors</b><br /><br />
"Action packed from page one...an impressively laid out passionate thrill ride!" <i><span><b>--</b></span></i><b>InD'Tale Magazine</b> (indtale.com)<br /><br />
"I anticipated a Booth and Bones relationship (from the Bones TV Series) and I wasn't wrong...this book is definitely worth reading." <i><span><b>--</b></span></i><b>Quality Reads UK Book Club</b><br /><br />
"A<span><span><span> brilliant mixture of action, romance and mystery. Well worth a read...</span></span></span><span><span><span>a very tough book to put down." </span></span></span><span><span><span><b><i><span><b>--</b></span></i></b></span></span></span><span><span><span><b><span>Jeep Diva</span></b><br /><br />
"Five-star page-turner! A truly edge-of-your-seat, never-a-dull-moment read! </span></span></span><span><i><span>Reflection</span></i></span><span><span><span> has a dramatic start and just never slows down.</span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>"</span></span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><b><i><span><b>--</b></span></i></b></span></span></span><b><span><span><span>Ellen Fritz at Books4Tomorrow</span></span></span></b></p>
