About the Book
Book: The Luck of the Draw
Author: Kate Darroch
Genre: Humorous British Detective Story
Release Date: August 9, 2024
Hunt’s back in court – as the defendant! Why is our suave hero in hot water? Can his friend and colleague Genie-Penny save him yet again? Will she want to? Or is Hunt playing a deep double game? Find out in The Luck of the Draw
Book Excerpt
Chapter 1
A Quiet Day at the Office
“Any vacation plans, Hunt?” asks Genie-Penny casually, as she sips tea from a porcelain cup held in her left hand, her right hand typing with blinding speed. And that’s just as well, since what’s she’s typing is some Top Secret document or other, a document I (probably) shouldn’t be permitted to see because I don’t have any Need to Know.
No guarantee on the Need to Know thing, though, because she could be typing up a new assignment for me as I sit there on the corner of her desk. That would be Gina’s idea of a laugh.
For those unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Operations section of MI5, known to friend and foe alike as the IT department, Gina Maddington is the section’s brilliant and incredibly competent Operations Co-Ordinator, and a good friend of mine from way back.
By means known only to himself, our boss ‘John’ has somehow saddled her with typing all the department’s ‘sensitive’ material, such as the agents’ assignments. And anything else he sends through to her that he marks Top Secret.
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About the Author
Twice Indie Spotlighted by Publishers Weekly; the 2022 and 2024 winner of the Incipere Award for Christian Fiction, 2022 winner of the Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, and of many mystery book awards, Kate hopes that her readers will enjoy her Màiri Maguire Cozy Mysteries.
Kate also writes Sweets by The Sea, a series of Second Chance for Lasting Love novels that combine the themes of forgiveness, redemption and recovery, set in sleepy Welcombe Bay on the gorgeous Devon coastline. Kate’s readers say these love stories are even sweeter than her Cozies. Thanksgiving in Welcombe Bay, the first book in the series, took First Place in the 2024 Incipere Awards for Christian Fiction and Clean Women’s Fiction; and in the Pencraft Christian Fiction Awards.
Yet it is when writing the Huntingdon Hart Investigates series that Kate has the most fun. Hunt’s story has not been accorded any accolades, but he takes that in his stride – a prophet is never appreciated at home. Although, as Hunt modestly points out, he’s not a prophet, just a genius! A smidgin of prescience, together with skills honed by his earlier service in MI5 and MI6, make Hunt a force to be reckoned with. But not in the eyes of his beloved, the divine Sophia, twenty years his senior and younger than spring, who refuses to take Hunt’s pursuit of her seriously.