Atticus Three : He's back and he's in NY

The best news for a while is that the new Atticus Drake Mystery is out, and this time it’s all about New York. 

Atticus is loft-sitting for his long lost cousin Jasper, looking after a beautiful apartment in the West Village, a swanky art gallery uptown, and a whole host of trouble, as he finds rather more than he bargained for behind the scenes. There's a whole host of new friends to be made and a villain or two to be exposed, and by the way, where is Jasper?

I’ve been lucky enough to visit New York a few times, and it has always taken  my breath away. It’s thrilling, it’s vibrant, it’s completely exhausting, it’s alive. Every second doorway promises an off-broadway theatre company, a new art collective, a pop-up boutique, or an optimistic fringe dining experience. There’s Macy’s and Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue. There’s the Rockefeller Center, the Park, and the Zoo. Every street corner is a movie set, street names and buildings prompt memories of literary classics. There are at least half a dozen ways to travel about from the subway and the Amtrak to yellow cabs, bicycle rickshaws, horse-drawn carriages, roller skate and cycle lanes, limousines, and although the natives would never do it, there's nothing more exciting than a good twenty-block walk. That's the one for me, footsore and dodging exhaust fumes and the rising air from the subway, I just love people watching, sightseeing, taking my life in my hands crossing the road, and finding little, out of the way places to eat, drink coffee, and listen to the sounds of the City. 

You know what? you can pick up a paperback or a download of A Bite in the Big Apple, right now. Don't forget to let me know what you think, and give Amazon the requested star rating feedback too, as that's what keeps my books at the forefront of the search engines, and in turn, what keeps me in bagels, if not in transatlantic air tickets (Not yet anyway).