Are You My Mother? (55 page)

He’s Watching Her…

To be published by Harper, July 2012

A gripping stalker thriller with a unique twist for fans of Nicci French, Sophie Hannah and Ruth Rendell.

Alex Parkinson is obsessed with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He will do anything to be with her. He stalks her on Facebook and finds out where she lives, buys her presents using her own credit card and sends her messages telling her what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house and hides in her wardrobe, reads her diary and listens to her while she takes a bath… Soon, he believes, she will realise they are meant to be together. But when a ‘love rival’ comes on to the scene, Alex has to take drastic action. Soon, a young woman lies dead on the concrete after tumbling from the roof of her house. Now there is no-one standing in the way of him and his unwitting true love…

But after Alex is scared off, Siobhan decides to take revenge. How dare he lose interest? She turns the tables on her stalker and his new girlfriend. At the same time, an old friend of the dead woman starts to investigate what really happened… As their lives unravel and the past closes in, Alex and Siobhan embark on a collision course that threatens to destroy both them and everyone around them.

Filled with suspense and dark comedy, and with a unique twist at the end that you will never guess, KILLING CUPID is written in alternating chapters, showing the male and female viewpoints.

Also by Louise Voss:

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
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A page-turning and emotional novel about ambition, and how sometimes what you really want is not what makes you happy.

Change is sometimes hard to face up to.

Rachel is a rising tennis star. But does she want success more than she wants a ‘real’ life, and a steady boyfriend like everyone else?

Susie is Rachel’s mother. All she wants is her partner Billy - but he’s left her, and it’s a huge shock. Is she brave enough to start again?

Gordana is Rachel’s grandmother. She has everything she ever wanted: health, wealth, and a loving family - or at least she thinks she does.

The link between them all is Ivan: Rachel’s father, Susie’s ex-husband, and Gordana’s son. It’s no secret that he can be difficult. But nobody is prepared for what happens when he gets arrested, or the changes that it forces on all their lives.

TO BE SOMEONE
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Louise Voss has drawn on her 10-year career in the music business as the backdrop for her debut novel-a touching story of female friendship and self-enlightenment. Helena Nicholls, cult London DJ and former bassist with globally successful rock band, Blue Idea, is knocked seriously off-track following a hideous, and deeply uncool, accident at an industry awards bash. With a long stay in hospital and an unwelcome, but enforced, career break, Helena has time to ponder on her good, and bad, fortune so far and which of life's difficult paths to tread next.

As she remembers back to early childhood and her first meeting with Samantha, the pretty five-year-old who was to become her best friend and life-long soul mate, key moments in time are remembered with a song.
To Be Someone
is told in alternating chapters of flashback and the present day; each flashback headed with a "Song of the Day"-a clever ploy, as most readers between the ages of 15 and 45 will find themselves nostalgic over such diverse musical memories as Jackie Wilson's "I Get The Sweetest Feeling", Blondie¹s "Sunday Girl", "Lovesong" by The Cure and "This is a Low" from Blur. (Yes, of course The Jam's "To Be Someone" is in at Number 11). When Helena is not remembering her parents move to America in her teens, the rise and fall of her pop career and her deepening attachment to Sam, she struggles to come to terms with the present and the injuries caused by her accident, physical and otherwise. Then, a chance meeting in a hospital corridor with a face from her past leaves Helena wondering if the immortalising path she has chosen is the right one after all?

Voss employs a deliberate teenage-diary style for
To Be Someone
: naïve, arrogant, self-absorbed yet full of pathos and bursting with all that growing-up still to be done. Hugely appealing to a younger female readership, this voyage into adulthood is rocked with the cataclysmic highs and lows of life, death, friendship and the music business. Judging from the dedication at the front of the book, Voss is clearly writing from the heart. --
Carey Green.

LIFESAVER

If you save someone's life, you become responsible for them.

When Anna receives a letter from Adam, thanking her for saving his son Max's life with a bone-marrow donation, it's the first positive thing that's happened to her for a long time. Grief-stricken at the recent loss of her baby, she's failed to give life in the past. Now this four-year-old boy is alive and healthy because of her: it's a heady realization.

Anna is desperate to get to know Max, yet terrified at how responsible she feels for him. So she decides not to tell anyone about him or that she's arranged to meet his father. Soon she is immersed in a complicated double life, spending half the week with her husband, who believes her to be filming out of town, and the other half with Adam and Max.

But Anna has lied to Adam about who she is. And she's lied about her marriage. And soon these lies will catch up with her...