Keeping up with Nick Heller

[Joseph Finder]

It's been a little crazy around here trying to finish the third Nick Heller novel while I prepare for the launch of the second, BURIED SECRETS, on June 21.

 

BURIED SECRETS finds Nick battling time as he searches for a 17-year-old girl, daughter of an old friend, who has been kidnapped -- and buried alive. The trailer, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0m2FCQZaok, gives you a good idea of the book's subject matter and tone.

 

It's tense stuff, with roots in my own fears as the father of a teenaged daughter -- and my own claustrophobia, which I didn't know I suffered from until a trip to Israel a couple of years ago. Being buried alive is one of humanity's oldest fears. What's it really like? I decided I needed to find out, and had myself locked into a casket. That too is online as a video, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNsL4vG6Xw.

 

Not all of the research for BURIED SECRETS was that grim. The woman of Nick's dreams had to wear a unique perfume, and deciding on which perfume took some time as well -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvEkwDm-zCY

 

I feel bad about not spending more time on CrimeSpace, but the Internet is a siren whose attractions I'm fighting constantly. In fact, I even made a video about that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB_EHb7D5f4&NR=1

 

All of these, of course, are designed to make you want to read BURIED SECRETS, and even to preorder it. You can do that (with a very special thank-you offer) right here: http://josephfinder.com/books/buried-secrets/preorder.

 

Nick thanks you, and I thank you.