Thank you to everyone who came to the party. Of course, Peggy showed up two minutes after I finished!

Help me celebrate the launch of my new book, The Darkest Water

Today's the day! The Darkest Water is out now! Available as an ebook, paperback or audiobook, you'll find it in Amazon stores worldwide. You can also ask your local book shop or library to order it in. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkest-Water-Mark-Edwards-ebook/dp/B0CC6V1HS6

Calvin... finally owns the bakery of his dreams, in an idyllic village in the Lake District. After reluctantly following his wife Vicky’s advice to promote it on social media, he’s thrilled when a viral clip makes him a legend overnight. But then the creepy DMs start flooding in—all from a stranger who claims she’s his biggest fan.

Meanwhile, a local recluse is found on a nearby beach, buried to his neck and left to drown, and the community goes into shock. Why would anyone want him dead? And who exactly was he? Detective Imogen Evans, new to the Lake District, is under pressure to find out before the killer strikes again.

As the murder hunt gathers pace, Calvin’s obsessive admirer turns up right on cue after his assistant is injured in an accident, and to Vicky’s horror she’s here to stay. As events begin spiralling into darkness, is there anyone in this quiet backwater Calvin can trust—or have his mistakes already put him, and everyone he loves, in terrible danger?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkest-Water-Mark-Edwards-ebook/dp/B0CC6V1HS6

The Darkest Water launches tomorrow. Sherlock is barely able to contain himself. However, I'm sure that you, my faithful readers, are beside yourselves with excitement. If you've already preordered the ebook, it should deliver to your Kindle at midnight. If you haven't ordered it ...yet, what are you waiting for? You might even make Sherlock twitch an ear. https://mybook.to/darkestwater/

The Darkest Water live launch party is happening here on my Facebook page on Tuesday 16 April at 8pm UK/3pm ET. I will be giving away all this stuff. The books will all be signed, the pens have torches and there will also be limited edition Magpies sets, tote bags and postcards. To win, you have to... be watching live because names will be drawn from the cookie jar! Ensure you don't miss out by clicking 'Going' on the event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1468261097456740

Hot off the press: an interview with me in today’s @expressandstar in which I talk about The Darkest Water (out Tuesday!). Also, giving @theheathbookshop’s books and music festival a plug. That happens next weekend and there are a few tickets left.

The second and final extract from The Darkest Water, published April.

I have a first UK edition of On Writing by Stephen King, which is still the best writing guide I’ve ever read, especially the memoir section. I particularly love the story about how, when he sold the paperback rights (ah, those were the days!) to Carrie, he went out looking for a celebratory gift... to buy his wife - and all he could find in their one local store was a hair dryer.

I wonder if it’s too late to enter the Meet Stephen King competition?

My new book, The Darkest Water, is published April 16. Join me as I read from the prologue.