About the Book

Book: No Other Way

Author: Kate Darroch

Genre: Thriller

Release date: September 26, 2024

Mary is The Protector. A high-functioning autistic investment banker by day, she walks the London streets by night, searching for ways to prevent violence.

Her devotion to her only sister, Anne, who died horribly as a teenager, her deep Christian faith, and her fierce loneliness, have caused Mary to believe that she, personally, is Christ’s Hands on Earth, and must spend her life ministering to wretched outcasts.

Now forty-five, Mary has followed followed her lonely ministry for decades, but a new crisis arises. She may hold the key to neutralising the attacks of a sadistic serial killer.

When younger she had been a member of the street-outreach team who had discovered the bodies of prostitutes ritually killed by a serial killer who was never caught.

DI William Miller believes the same twisted mind is behind a rash of current killings that are being attributed to gang fights. He is determined to find and stop the killer – and he wants Mary to help him.

 

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About the Author

KATE DARROCH, 2022 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medallist for Humor

lives on the picturesque Devon coast, where she combines her passion for mystery and for life as it’s lived in other countries to create compelling Travel Cozies, moving Recovery Romances and chilling Thrillers.

Kate’s debut novel, Death in Paris, won 17 international book awards, including the 2022 

Incipere Award for best Christian Fiction. Kate hopes her readers will enjoy Màiri’s sleuthing adventures as much as she enjoys Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Anty Boisjoly’s antics, and the Mr Quayle Mysteries.

Next, Kate wrote Huntingdon Hart, a witty, prescient, multi-millionaire, tongue-in-cheek meld of Get Smart, James Bond, and Mycroft Holmes. Hunt’s in love with a much older woman.

Then came Sweets By the Sea, a Recovery & Redemption Saga of Second Chances for Lasting Love. No Other Way is Kate’s first thriller; she is working on another two thrillers.

More from Kate

We Are Christ’s Hands and Feet on This Earth

I have always loved Gospel choirs, and that was the genesis of No Other Way. The heroine, Mary, is a devout Roman Catholic who joins an ecumenical movement where she meets an immigrant from Kenya, Asha, who belongs to a Gospel church and invites Mary to a service.

            Over the mountains, over the sea, Lord I come running, running to Thee

Mary is captivated by the beauty of the Gospel hymns, and she and Asha become friends.

I lived in London, where this story takes place, for many years. It astonished me that there were always beggars on the streets. We have a Welfare State in Britain. Anyone can ask to be housed and given an allowance for food and clothing, ask for their rent and power bills to be paid, and the state is obliged to provide. Of course the allowance is inadequate, and many people live in poverty, but no-one need starve and no-one need sleep rough. Yet people do.

I talked to many beggars in the course of helping in what few ways I could, and they all told me the same thing – they didn’t want to ask for state aid because it would mean conforming in ways that were alien to them, but when the cold weather set in, they did force themselves to conform.

So I was horrified to discover, roughly 12 years ago, that the state had begun to make it very difficult for vagrants to get housing, that people were dying on our streets of hypothermia. The churches took action, of course. Church halls turned into dormitories and teams of volunteers cooked for the men. But after a couple of years, women began to come for shelter. Not as often as the men, but far too often. I began working with landlords directly to get decent housing for these women, and going with them to state agencies to get rent payment organised for them. That was the next strand of No Other Way. A lone middle-aged woman helping people in need who had no-one else to turn to.

The final impetus to begin telling the story of The Protector, came when a vicious teenage schoolkid in London knifed and killed a teacher because he objected to being told what to do by a man of colour. I was stunned – we’d never had that kind of violent prejudice in Britain. Snobbery, yes. Hate crimes, no. Clearly, the police didn’t have a handle on the situation and something needed to be done. So, at least inside the pages of No Other Way, something gets done. Mary, the Protector, ensures that the streets of London are free from mindless violence. One street at least. Chilworth Street.

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Kate is giving away the grand prize package of a copy of No Other Way, Hunted, Death in Paris and the winner’s choice of any Frieda McFadden!!

(Winner’s choice of paperback or eBook)

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/00adcf5449/