Cold Comforts (Signed (Hardcover) by Peter Crowther

A COLLECTION by Peter Crowther

PUBLISHER Cemetery Dance
CATEGORY Fantasy/Horror
PUBLICATION DATE 2014
PAGES 300

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the The Good Book is a more straightforward PI yarn which, again, was an almost obscene amount of fun to write. The Cost of Freedom' had to cover the suspicious circumstances of Marilyn Monroes death & had to include something about JFK But every now & then I get a specific request to set a story in EnglandCat On An Old School Roof & The Allotment are 2 such, in an archetypal English boarding school in the 1890s . . . complete with an obligatory school bully and, of course, a cat. The Allotment was a request f to write something quintessentially North English that transferred to England the American small town darkness & meticulously researched social detail of Stephen King, mixing in a liberal dose of Peter Loveseys slowly unveiling suspense-style in the process. For many, the * of children is the most heinous crime imaginable . . . even more horrific & unforgivable, in its brutal theft of innocence, than the taking of actual life. A Time To Dance Koko Tate take on a cycle of retribution which he believes to be the only hope for a young boy . The Main Event has as its central premise a most unusual method of poisoning. First Lady Murders was the title of an anthology of (yes, youve guessed it) of * stories featuring real First Ladies. When the Berlin Wall came down, I foresaw problems & wrote Reunification. Which brings us to the final story in this book. Cold Comforts was, I think, either my third or fourth Koko story. Wed just gotten through a particularly hard winter in England, with news reports filled with true horror stories of old people dying of hypothermia in unheated homes & run-down tenements. I got to thinking about old folkswhich, so long as we dont die young, well all be ourselves one fine dayand about maybe someone taking responsibility for their comfort into their own hands.