#BlogTour ‘Deep Dark Night’ by Steph Broadribb

About the book..

A city in darkness. A building in lockdown. A score that can only be settled in blood…

Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their mission: to entrap the head of the Cabressa crime family. The bait: a priceless chess set that Cabressa is determined to add to his collection.

An exclusive high-stakes poker game is arranged in the penthouse suite of one of the city’s tallest buildings, with Lori holding the cards in an agreed arrangement to hand over the pieces, one by one. But, as night falls and the game plays out, stakes rise and tempers flare.

When a power failure plunges the city into darkness, the building goes into lockdown. But this isn’t an ordinary blackout, and the men around the poker table aren’t all who they say they are. Hostages are taken, old scores resurface and the players start to die.

And that’s just the beginning…

Described as Lori Anderson meets Die Hard, what more inducement do you need to pick up Deep Down Dead which is out now in paperback and ebook!

Purchase links are below, click on them and check out the recently repackaged Lori Anderson series, it’s pretty special in this humble blogger’s opinion.

Lori Anderson is back and not a moment too soon.

From the short, sharp opener which sets the scene, you are then immediately plunged into Lori’s first person narrative-smooth, calm and focussed with killer instincts, this is the fourth of her adventures which finds her out of her comfort zone, away from the Everglades and in a whole heap of trouble.

”I’ve always felt an element of fear about the jobs I do. In the right dosage it can help you.It gets your adrenaline firing ,makes you think clearer, faster-gets you alert ,and ready to tackle anything that comes your way.But if the fear builds too much,all that good stuff swings things round :the nerves make you hesitant,jumpy and too cautious.That’s when you start making mistakes. And mistakes in my world can be fatal.”

Hello old friend, it is a pure delight to hear your voice again!

IMHO Lori Anderson is on a par with V.I Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone-I can think of no higher praise for this bounty hunter whose escapades I hold dearly as thrill rides par excellence.

This time around, picking up after ‘Deep Dirty Truth’ , Lori finds herself in deep , DEEP trouble. She has to play the game of her life passing herself off as a poker player, in the penthouse suite of new mega structure, Skyland Towers, in the company of Chicago mob boss Cabressa, and a host of bad news criminals. Except….Lori cannot play poker.

And in this game, more than just her life is at stake. Ex JT Monroe, father of her daughter Dakota is on voard as her security detail, also undercover. The game is for Lori to no longer be beholden to FBI agent Alex Monroe, tie up Cabressa by dangling a much wanted gold chest set in front of him and get him to admit handling stolen goods and then go home to Dakota. Should be easy, right?

It was all so going well until the lights go out….

Instead of a panic room, the entire penthouse suite is on lock down. Easy enough to write that off as new building wiring issues-until a ‘And Then There Were None’ style voice rings out and identifies each and everyone of the ten poker players as hiding a secret. One of them is annoymous and hidden crime maven Herron and the gamers have a limited amount of time to work out who it is before they all end up dead.

OMG!! Fingers bitten down to stumps! After a quick recap and re-establishing a connection with Lori and her allies, the reader is whizzed through a blinding fast taster on poker and then , there they are-everything to play for, all the characters in place and the tension sky high. The short chapters ramp up the pressure to unbearable levels as you whizz through the pages, consumed in a story constructed by a consummate plotter.

The emotional resonance is priceless, you care so deeply about Lori and feel that delicious agony between wanting to linger over the story and racing to see if she makes it out to the end. But you can say, hey, I can whizz through this and then read all the books again in order! So a win win situation! But trust me, savour this slowly and enjoy the craft with which this book and its characters have beem constructed. Now, more than ever we need the escapsim that books can bring and the Lori Anderson quartet not only support an independent publisher, they keep writers like Stpeh Broadribb in business.

And that, for us discerning readers, can only be a gamble worth taking, right?

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