The Basilisk Murders

[cosmolinguist]

Andrew has written a book!

The Basilisk Murders is now out in hardback from Lulu, and in paperback and ebook from Amazon (UK ebook), (UK paperback), (US ebook), (US paperback). Those of you with Kindle Unlimited or the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library can read it for free — and if you don’t have those, you can sign up for a thirty-day free trial for Kindle Unlimited and read it for free anyway.

I really love this book, it's an Agatha Christie murder mystery only the island belongs to a libertarian and the people who are getting murdered are from the worst corners of the internet. And our heroine is a bi poly woman who's clever, sarcastic and very funny.

I think a lot of my friends would like it. I certainly did, and it seems to be getting a good reaction from a few people who've bought it so far.

Here's the blurb from the back of the book:
“Was this going to be the end? I wondered as I sprinted down yet another flight of stairs. Was I going to get caught, and get killed, by a geek serial killer?”

When Sarah arrives at a tech conference she’s meant to be covering for her magazine, she thinks it’ll be a few days away from her marriage problems on a tropical island. Instead, she’s surrounded by sleazy men who want to build a computer God, thousands of miles from home and her wife. She hates where she is, and the people who are around her.

But when someone starts killing those people off, Sarah has to investigate. What is the Basilisk? Who is committing the murders? Why is everyone talking about blackmail? And why is everyone drinking fish?

Surrounded by Russian billionaires, gropey bloggers, alt-right computer scientists, and philosophy professors, can Sarah solve the murders and win back her wife before the Singularity? And can she do it without having to deal with her racist ex-girlfriend?

Part cozy mystery, part technothriller, part biting satire, The Basilisk Murders is a hilarious, gripping, story of irrational rationality, staying kind in a hostile world, and building a better sandcastle.

Comments

The eternal issue

[jesse_the_k]

...for close relatives of authors: is the "you" in it in it in an acceptable way?

Re: The eternal issue

[cosmolinguist]

Me? Oh there's no character even remotely like me!

Re: The eternal issue

[jesse_the_k]

Hoooooray!

Re: The eternal issue

[theandrewhickey]

You mean you didn't recognise when I fictionalised you as a slick Steve Jobsian billionaire or a Bitcoin obsessive who looks like early-60s Rolf Harris? But they're so exactly like you!

[norfolkian]

I know you should never judge a book by its cover, but I really like the cover design! There seem to be so many poorly designed book covers out there these days... but this is not one of them.

[cosmolinguist]

I like it too. :) Andrew did some of the design work himself, and a kind friend helped finish it.