Quote:This is among Kochany's better-written offerings, perhaps because, having been published by the Acolyte Press, it benefitted from Frank Torey's editing skills. The PDF is good - far better than most of his self-published works, and the EPUB was prepared (I think) by a member or members of a previpus incarnation of this forum. All that was necessary was to update the stylesheet and the html.

The story is fairly standard. There's a recognisable narrative and storyline to drive it forward, and although there's obviously a lot of sexual activity described, most of it is in a non-threatening and loving context, and where that doesn't apply, the perpetrators get their come-uppance eventually.

We've seen these characters before: the shy new boy, the kind older boy who takes him under his wing, the tart with a heart of gold, the experienced youngsters and the inexperienced, the enthusiastic and the disapproving, the insane Headmaster, the psychopathic staff, as well as the kindly. They're all here.

As far as I know, this is the last of the works published under this nom de plume, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong!

   

Quote: Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...