Saffina Desforges

About

30-something fiction writer.

Sugar & Spice

Commercial fiction – crime thriller

120,000 words

Synopsis

Sugar & Spice is my first completed crime thriller. Available now on Amazon.

Also available via Smashwords in any e-book format and B&N.

Sugar & Spice is set across the UK, against the background of Britain’s fragmented criminal justice system, with the key protagonists the mother and partner of a murdered child.

While taking as their canvas the murky world of the psycho-sexual deviant, these works are multi-layered, with appeal to a broad audience. Beneath the fast-moving, commercial storytelling runs a torrent of sub-plots, while simultaneously engaging in an underlying intellectual debate about the nature of sexuality and how society treats, or rather fails to treat, offenders to its cost.

At once disquieting and challenging, this thoroughly researched novel is always compelling.

The story was inspired by two real-life events: Britain’s most prolific child-killer Robert Black; and a news story of a man who begged a Judge to give him a longer sentence, because he knew he would offend again, more seriously, if released without treatment.

'Sugar & Spice' has now sold over 100,000 copies in its first year.

Book One of The Rose Red Crime Thriller series, 'Snow White' is now available on all major ebook platforms. Book Two, 'Rapunzel' will be released by the end of 2011.

Add me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/saffina.desforges

My Amazon Author page is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B004BEBF6E

Sugar & Spice can be purchased from Smashwords here:http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/29616

My Smashwords author page can be viewed here:http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dsaffina

Contact me: dsaffina@yahoo.com OR saffinadesforges1@gmail.com

I am also working on two other projects: For details of our new, dark, adult, Urban Fantasy, (coming 2012) check out my sister blog:http://sapphicscribe.wordpress.com and for details of The Rose Red Series: A series of crime novels (with a fairy tale theme, but set in modern day) centering around DI Cass 'Red' Rose and her team, go to Rose Red Series

The Kurdish Connection

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KURDISH SCAVENGERS UNCOVER A CACHE OF NERVE GAS IN IRAQ AND OFFER THEM TO KURDISH FIGHTERS IN TURKEY. THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS BEDLAM ALPHA TEAM MUST SECURE THE WEAPONS BEFORE THEY CAN BE USED."You must swear by Allah never to say a word of what I'm going to tell you. This is the most important secret. Ever!"In their daily struggle for survival, Iraqi Kurdish scavengers uncover a cache of chemical weapons. They offer the weapons to fellow Kurdish rebels in Turkey and Syria to assist in their quest to free an imprisoned leader and create a unified homeland. After receiving a tip from an unlikely source, the newly formed Special Operations Bedlam team is called to arms! Travel with Craig Cameron and his international team on their covert operation as they weave their way through war-torn regions seeking to locate and recover the weapons before they can be used to cause irreparable harm and instigate a world crisis. The odds are stacked against them. Can they manage to keep their operation hidden and prevent further clashes before it's too late?"The Kurdish Connection--a compelling read. A story of friendship, danger and intrigue."--Ann Everett, Amazon Best Selling Author...". Randall's authentic voice adds a powerful push to keep a reader turning the pages." --Janet Taylor-Perry, author of The Raiford Chronicles, The Legend of Draconis Saga, and April Chastain Intrigues."Topical - Engaging - Intriguing - Powerful ... A real page turner."--Rikon Gaites, author of Mummy's Little Soldier and Darius Odenkirk...". Randall Krzak brings his wealth of experience living in this troubled part of the world and his military knowledge to bear in this exciting story..."--John L. DeBoer, author of When the Reaper Comes...". a journey full of history, suspense, intrigue, and action...a MUST READ for all!"--Les Stahl, Retired NSA Executive...". Readers need to fasten their seatbelts for a fast-paced tale made believable by a writer who knows what he's writing about."--Preston Holtry, author of the Morgan Westphal mystery series and the Arrius trilogy (forthcoming)."A behind the scenes story, ripped from today's headlines deepening the reader's understanding of an ancient strife ... filled with the sights and smells of the market place and secret meetings, the reader is admitted to the secret heart, the desperate longings of those that must fight and win, or see continued subjugation by their masters..."--Oliver F. Chase, author of Camelot Games, Levant Mirage, Blind Marsh, and Marsh Island.

Story Behind The Book

When you've got two young children, and you think the unthinkable, where do you turn? Sugar & Spice is set across the UK, against the background of Britain’s fragmented criminal justice system, with the key protagonists the mother and partner of a murdered child. Inspired by a news story of a man who begged a Judge to give him a longer sentence, because he knew he would harm another child if released without treatment, Sugar & Spice is meticulously researched, asking the questions society prefers not to have answered. At once disquieting and challenging, Sugar & Spice is car-crash reading. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. A child fails to return home. As hours turn to days, all they can do is hope. Sadly, some children never come back... The story opens when two boys find the severed arm of a missing child. For the distraught mother, Claire Meadows, and her partner Matt Burford, the arrest of local sex-offender Thomas Bristow seems to offer closure. But doubts soon emerge. The Met officers who “interview” Bristow are from the Gene Hunt school of policing, and the confession appears worthless when another child is killed while Bristow is awaiting trial. Driven by the need to know, Claire meets with Bristow on remand, but he has a compelling argument, convincing her not only that he is innocent of harming her daughter, but that his previous convictions were not what they seemed. An uneasy friendship develops between the two. Running parallel to this we meet Greg Randall, respectable accountant and utterly devoted father of six year old twins. But for Randall, the murder has brought to the fore private demons he has long been struggling to cope with. When you've got two young children, and you think the unthinkable, where do you turn? Fearing he might one day lose control, Randall seeks counselling at a prestigious private clinic, licensed by the Home Office to treat sex-offenders. Randall’s struggle to balance his family life as he undergoes “therapy,” runs alongside the hunt for the child-killer, until eventually the two story-lines inexorably converge. With the Police inquiry floundering, Matt and Claire embark on their own investigation, teaming up with a second-year psychology student and a fourteen year-old truant schoolboy to bring one man’s reign of terror to an end. If you’re about to buy this and you’ve got children of your own, you may want to think twice. This is a novel every parent should read. But be warned: In Sugar & Spice not all things are nice...

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Reviews

<div style="margin-bottom:.5em;">Compelling, realistic read. Could not put it down., 21 Feb 2011</div><div style="margin-bottom:.5em;"><div><div style="float:left;">By </div><div style="float:left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/profile/A9CTGWEQIAOKB/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pdp" style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:#004b91;">M. Leese<img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/carrot._V192561957_.gif" class="custPopRight" alt="" style="border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;vertical-align:-1px;margin-left:3px;" /></a></div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div><div class="tiny" style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;margin-bottom:.5em;">This review is from: Sugar & Spice (A full-length crime thriller) (Kindle Edition)</div>Found this via Kindle store and downloaded it as it was a cheaper read and I'm so glad I found this author and book. It is just amazing. The detail and research that have gone into it are outstanding. This makes it a fast, impossible to put down read - up with the likes of Peter James. However, a word of warning - it is graphic in its detail and its insight into the mind of a paedophile in the character of Greg Randall. This makes it chilling but also makes it believable and realistic, if not also uncomfortable reading in places. I will certainly look for more by this author in the same genre and would recommend to anyone who enjoys a well written british crime thriller.

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