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WORDS BY CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS
A MURDER WITNESSED OVER SKYPE OPENS THIS VERY MODERN THRILLER, BUT DON’T BE FOOLED – IT HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF A CLASSIC, TIMELESS WHODUNNIT WATCHING FROM THE DARK BY GYTHA LODGE
Gytha’s previous book, She Lies in Wait – also featuring Jonah and his team – was a huge success, reaching the Sunday Times Top Ten list and getting picked up by the Richard and Judy Book Club. For Gytha, one of the interesting challenges of this second published novel is measuring it against the success of her first – or trying to resist the comparison. “You get so much love and support as a debut writer and I have lovely, lovely publishers who are excellent at handholding as well as editing and
atching From the Dark opens spectacularly, with Aidan Poole logging on to Skype to catch up with
marketing; it’s the perfect combination. But with the second novel, just getting it into the same space as the first is actually quite hard,” she says. “I think I didn’t quite believe the publishers when they said second books never sell as many as first books, but now I understand. You have to accept that it won’t always sell quite as quickly – but I’ve had really lovely reactions so far, which has been grand.” Writing a so-called ‘difficult second novel’ wasn’t quite the challenge you might expect, in part because Gytha’s first
his girlfriend Zoe, then finding himself witnessing what appears to be a violent struggle and her off-camera murder. But why does he hesitate to call the police? This is the second detective novel from Cambridge-based author Gytha Lodge, and the thriller unfolds in all directions as the slippery truth evades both the police and the reader in turn.
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