I am pleased to be welcoming Diana Wilkinson to Novel Kicks. She’s here with the blog tour for her novel, One Down.

I’m not being paranoid! It’s all there in the crossword clues…in black and white. There’s no doubt the threat is real. Today, the answers spell out my murder.

May Third. Amanda. Silver Birch. Noontime. Assassination.

Is Nathan, my estranged crossword-setter husband, really planning to kill me? Or is it someone closer to home?

I check the door is bolted, slither to the ground, and count down the seconds to noon. There’s nothing left to do, and no one I can call. Who’d believe me anyway? The lady on the ground floor has already left the building, and my new boyfriend is on holiday. Or is he?

A tread of footsteps. A rap at the door, and I close my eyes, hold my breath…

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Completing the crossword puzzle is a part of Amanda’s daily routine, a thing she does to distract herself from temptation. 

However, when she starts to see clues that are meant for her, anxiety and need for alcohol increases. 

Is it her ex husband setting the clues? A man who blames her for a horrible accident? Whoever it is, they mean to cause paranoia or even worse, her death. 

I was intrigued by this novel and so was pleased to be on the blog tour for One Down. 

Having not read anything by Diana Wilkinson before, I didn’t fully know what to expect so was keen to get started. 

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