Fiona Leitch
Fiona Leitch is a writer with a chequered past. She’s written for football and motoring magazines, DJ’ed at illegal raves and is a stalwart of the low budget TV commercial, even appearing as the Australasian face of a cleaning product called 'Sod Off'. After living in London and Cornwall she's finally settled in sunny New Zealand, where she enjoys scaring her cats by trying out dialogue on them. She spends her days dreaming of retiring to a crumbling Venetian palazzo, walking on the windswept beaches of West Auckland, and writing funny, flawed but awesome female characters.
The first book in her 'Nosey Parker' series of cozy mysteries set in Cornwall will be published by One More Chapter in January 2021, with books 2 and 3 following in Febru
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Es war einmal ein Junge, der fürchtete die Nacht. Sobald sich die Dunkelheit wie ein schweres schwarzes Tuch über sein Zimmer legte, erwachten in der Finsternis Wesen. Sie wisperten Geschichten von Orten, die niemals Licht erhellte und die er in diese Welt bringen sollte. Aber der Junge fürchtete sich, und je mehr er versuchte, die Wesen zu ignorieren, desto mehr schwoll ihr Flüstern an zu einem Gesang, der sich mit seinen Träumen verwob, die ihn zu diesen finsteren Welten führten.
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