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Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service
The first Harry short story collection is here! Like to buy a signed original paperback copy? Please email me The ebook versions and the Print-on-Demand versions are also available. An audiobook version is now out as well. See links below. Like to grab yourself a copy? All the purchase links are on the WORKS page. Click here: Works See the latest BOOK REVIEWS! As the blurb says: "Dark, debauched, and disturbing..."
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Harry's Quest
The stunning sequel to Harry's World has arrived! The paperbacks are now here. Like to buy one? Please email me The ebook versions and the Print-on-Demand versions are also available. See links below.
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Harry's World
The multiple award-winning debut novel by A.B.Patterson. Available in paperback, ebook and POD (print-on-demand). All the purchase links are on the WORKS page. Click here: Works
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"She had legs all the way up to heaven, but Harry's gut instinct told him she'd take him all the way to hell."
- Harry's World (p.28)
- Harry's World (p.28)
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My latest release...
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THE BEST TRULY INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF 2022
Absolutely thrilled that my Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service made the official selection list for The Best Truly Independent Books of 2022, compiled by the Independent Fiction Alliance in the USA. |
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NEW SHORT STORY PUBLISHED
One of my Detective Sergeant Harrington short stories was accepted to join the anthology The Tattered Blue Line, edited and published by Frank Zafiro, a fellow ex-cop turned crime fiction writer. I was thrilled to have my story line up alongside the excellent crime authors featured in this collection, all of whom have worked in law enforcement roles. The theme of the anthology was the challenges and controversies of contemporary police work. On Amazon |
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The first anthology from the Cops Writing Crime project has arrived.
15 crime fiction stories from authors who have all carried the badge, from the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia. More details on my Works page. Available on Amazon. (Kindle & POD paperback) Also on Barnes & Noble and Book Depository. And on all other popular platforms. |
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The first Harry audiobook!
Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service has just gone live as an audiobook, narrated by the excellent Declan Nicholls. It's on all the regular audiobook platforms. August 2021 |
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2021 Global Ebook Awards - 4 medals for Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service
SILVER MEDAL - Mystery Fiction SILVER MEDAL - Short Stories SILVER MEDAL - Best Illustration in Adult Fiction (credit to Ran Scott, artist) BRONZE MEDAL - Best Ebook Cover (credit to J.T. Lindroos, designer)
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NEW SHORT STORY PUBLISHED - Feb. 2021
I've been a fan of Pink Floyd since seeing The Wall as a teenager - back in the days when you could sit in the back row of the dingy little cinema and smoke your packet of 10 cigarettes! And we did. How times have changed... Anyway, I was intrigued when I saw this project being managed by the editor T. Fox Dunham - pick a Pink Floyd song title and then write a crime story with that same title. After I initially asked for "Comfortably Numb", which had already been taken, I settled on "Childhood's End", a song I admittedly hardly knew, and I was thrilled when Fox accepted the resulting story. Aside from a superb lineup of crime authors in this collection, part of the proceeds of all sales goes to the US Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The editor, Fox, is a cancer survivor, hence the charity component. So, grab yourself a great read and help a great cause. Here's the Amazon link: BUY HERE Cheers, ABP |
About Harry's World:
"... for those looking for something ballsy and literate, in the Chandler/Bruen vein, this one might do the trick."
- Kevin Burton Smith, The Thrilling Detective Web Site
"... for those looking for something ballsy and literate, in the Chandler/Bruen vein, this one might do the trick."
- Kevin Burton Smith, The Thrilling Detective Web Site
About Harry's World:
"At times, the sheer grittiness of Harry's World can make it quite difficult to read, especially if you are the parent of young children, but it's impossible to put down. It's a fine balance to talk about such subjects without putting people off continuing, but Patterson does it well...
...The episodes are all thoroughly engrossing and easily flow from violent, to seedy, to pulling at the heart-strings and back again. It's been a good while since I enjoyed anything quite so much as my visit to Harry's World.
***** 5 Stars!"
- Kris, Self Publisher's Showcase
"At times, the sheer grittiness of Harry's World can make it quite difficult to read, especially if you are the parent of young children, but it's impossible to put down. It's a fine balance to talk about such subjects without putting people off continuing, but Patterson does it well...
...The episodes are all thoroughly engrossing and easily flow from violent, to seedy, to pulling at the heart-strings and back again. It's been a good while since I enjoyed anything quite so much as my visit to Harry's World.
***** 5 Stars!"
- Kris, Self Publisher's Showcase
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All photographs, images and text on this website, unless otherwise expressly stated (see below), are the copyright of A. B. Patterson.
The main exceptions to this copyright statement are the quotes from other authors cited on the "Quotes" page, which remain the copyright of the cited authors (or the copyright owners), as well as the photographs of famous authors which are, to the best of my knowledge, in the public domain, with appropriate attribution as required. There are also numerous stock photos throughout the website - these have been purchased from iStock and Alamy, or they are free images from Pexels with attribution where requested. The blog pages may contain images which are freely available online. Book cover images may be my own photographs or may be drawn from websites - they are used to highlight and support the work of their authors and/or editors.
Logos of other organisations are their copyright and are only used in the spirit of promoting those organisations or websites.
"She gave me a lazy, lopsided smile, unabashedly slid her hand into my crotch, and looked me in the eye. 'So, what would handsome like today?'."
- From the Harry short story, "Little Rich Street Girl", in Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service (p.5)
- From the Harry short story, "Little Rich Street Girl", in Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service (p.5)
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