The Ben Bracken thrillers have got a new digital look - and, for the first time, you can get all 5 together in one digital edition! Hope you like them! Link below if you’re feeling bravely vigilante this lunchtime! 👍👊 #benbracken #vigilante #thrillerbooks 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GN54XF1J

Huge thanks to @NorfolkMagazine and @CatherineLarner, for this very wonderful piece - very grateful and more than a bit flabbergasted. To write about Nelson’s county is a joy!

Friday night is confession night - where Trevor Wood and I blow the lid off crime-writing, the publishing world, and all things in between. Join us at Sutton Library, Ellesmere Port, for an evening with a lot of laughs and few surprises.. Tickets below! Join us! 🎟️ https://buff.ly/3EBpWPl

For Christmas, my godfather Uncle Rich got me this awesome ‘book rest and refreshment stand combo unit’ - so tonight it’s a little Guinness and the brilliant SON by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger, courtesy of mighty Orenda Books! Cheers all!

So excited about this - in just two days I'll be heading back to a city I adore and Waterstones Sheffield, to chat with the brilliant @russthomas about The Troubled Deep🤿 ! We are both proud #SheffieldHallam alumni - any students, we'd love to talk books/publishing! 🎟️ https://buff.ly/4jvoPRs

Book fans in Liverpool, we've got your Monday night sorted! Tomorrow night, the 27th, I'll be at Waterstones Liverpool chatting up a storm with the genius Stu Turton - and the last time i shared the stage with Stu, I nearly laughed myself into an accident. Tix here! https://buff.ly/429mOEi

Calling all book fans in the north west and beyond! Tonight I'm in Romiley, near Stockport chatting with wonderful Chris McDonald at super Serenity Booksellers! There's a handful of tickets left - come and join us! Always a wonderful crowd and atmosphere! 6.30pm start! https://buff.ly/3PKp9xY

#TheTroubledDeep🤿 tour is well underway now, with the Norfolk leg complete! And we've added a new date! A free event on 1st Feb at wonderful Waterstones Durham! Next up is a quick 1-2 of Serenity Romiley and Waterstones Newcastle - some tix still available here! 🎟️ https://buff.ly/429mOEi

Heading off on a tour of Norfolk bookshops today, but look at this lovely fella saying goodbye from a garden on the walk to station! Could have stayed there all day!

I adored @roxiekey.bsky.social's #TheDeadlySpark (I need the sequel and I need it NOW!) so imagine the delight when these lovely words arrived. Thanks so much Roxie! #TheTroubledDeep🤿 is out in 8 days - preorder now here! 📚 https://buff.ly/4a49eEb

One of the most generous writers out there is @cmacwritescrime, and he's proven it again with his thoughts on #TheTroubledDeep🤿 . Chris selflessly champions so many voices in the crime world, and is now at 'national treasure' status. Thank you man! 📚 https://buff.ly/4a49eEb

#TheTroubledDeep🤿 is just days away now - and we're getting ready to hit the road! More bits and pieces to be confirmed/added, but here's the state of play - thanks so much to all involved. Can't wait to see you all out there! Ticket details here! linktr.ee/rpevents

My lovely mum got me a ‘blind date book’ from a second hand bookshop, and I hit a bit of a jackpot with a David Baldacci! What a lovely idea this is!

Merry Christmas everyone. Feel very thankful, and grateful. 🙏

Very excited to be going back to my home bookshop with #TheTroubledDeep🤿! 18th January, 11am-2pm, I’ll be signing and nattering away at Forget-Me-Not Toys and Books in Culcheth! Come and join us!

Twas the week before Christmas… and we’re still here grinding 🥊 www.instagram.com/reel/DDuICFj...

#TheTroubledDeep is out a month today! How on earth has that happened? Can't wait for readers to meet Cam and Nala, and see what horrors are lurking... Preorder links here - thanks for everything! linktr.ee/thetroubledd...

This is an amazing look at what a great year we've had with #CrimeCentral. Check it out!

Crime Central Manchester@crimecentral.bsky.social · 2y ago

What an incredible year we have had at Crime Central in 2024! 9 incredible events and 25 fantastic guest authors 📚 @robparkerauthor.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

Yess! Delighted to see this one announced! @serenitybookshop.bsky.social are doing crazy-good things and I'm so pleased to be able to go back - and speak with brother-in-arms @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social! Thurs 23rd Jan, tickets at the link below, come and join us! Going to be amazing!

The Troubled Deep - Rob Parker in conversation with Chris McDonald at Serenity Booksellers (Romiley)

Tickets are now available for The Troubled Deep - Rob Parker in conversation with Chris McDonald at Serenity Booksellers (Romiley), Stockport on Thu 23 Jan 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

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Serenity Booksellers@serenitybookshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EVENT! The brilliant @robparkerauthor.bsky.social will be at the Romiley shop on Thursday 23rd January to celebrate the release of THE TROUBLED DEEP - his gripping new crime thriller that introduces us to cold case diver Cam Killick. Rob will be in conversation with @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social

It’s deadline day for our Scribblers Christmas Anthology! Here’s a host of our talented soon-to-be published authors putting on the finishing touches before we go to print! Couldn’t be prouder of them - what amazing imaginations!

It’s deadline day for our Scribblers Christmas Anthology! Here’s a host of our talented soon-to-be published authors putting on the finishing touches before we go to print! Couldn’t be prouder of them - what amazing imaginations!

I had the real pleasure of meeting @LJShepherdwords at #ChilternKills this year, and doubly lucky when she agreed to take a look at #TheTroubledDeep🤿!Thanks so much for the kind words Laura! Extremely grateful, so glad you liked it! Preorders open here: buff.ly/3VyBQiD

Sorry to anyone I had to steal a photo from, but #NewcastleNoir was simply brilliant yet again. Thank you to everyone, old friends and new - happiness meter fully stocked once more. If you’ve never been, please make it a priority! So friendly, positive and downright wonderful.

Well, this is something that’s never happened to me before - sneaking into The Literary Review! Very appreciative and grateful! #TheTroubledDeep🤿 is out 16th Jan from mighty @BloomsburyRaven - which you can grab here: linktr.ee/thetroubleddeep literaryreview.co.uk/december-202...

I was delighted to talk #TheTroubledDeep🤿 for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website. Some really great questions here, that pulled answers out of me that I really wasn’t expecting! Check it out below! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Rob Parker interview: The Troubled Deep book interview

Author, Rob Parker on his propulsive crime thriller, The Troubled Deep, on diving into what frightens us and how he explores sensitive issues, such as PTSD and sacrifice within his writing.

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Some wonderful #TheTroubledDeep🤿 words have landed from the super Louisa Scarr (@samhollandbooks.bsky.social), whose own novels constantly have me thrilled. Thanks Louisa! See you Saturday! Out 16th January 2025 - preorder NOW! 🛒amzn.eu/d/eHMy8LS 🧊tinyurl.com/mtcp2eed 📚tinyurl.com/tj6tmtyr

Oh my flipping word, it’s out there. On 16th January, #TheTroubledDeep🤿 is out - and we are celebrating the launch in style at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social with none other than the mighty @mwcraven.bsky.social! Stunned - thank you all for making this happen! Tickets: tinyurl.com/TTDlaunch

Another super night to round off a wonderful 2024 with Manchester Libraries and @crimecentral.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who continually makes this night so special!

Crime Central Manchester@crimecentral.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you to everyone who made last night such a huge success, you are all superstars and we couldn't do it without you 💜 Guest authors SL McManus @nicktriplow.bsky.social Teresa Solana ✒️ MCR Library, Instituto Cervantes & @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 📚 The best host @robparkerauthor.bsky.social 🎤

Update - it was brilliant! #NoOneWillSaveYou is a new fave of the very precise alien abduction genre - and it’s utterly terrifying to boot.

Rob Parker@robparkerauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really don’t think my heart will survive this one - twenty minutes in and my nerves are scrambled egg!

Really don’t think my heart will survive this one - twenty minutes in and my nerves are scrambled egg!