Crime writer Geoff Marriott will be hosting a book signing for his debut novel, A Dish Served Cold at Roxanne’s Reflections in Fergus on Aug. 16 from 11am until 2pm.
A Dish Served Cold is billed as “a red-hot cop thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
Anne Faircroft was a high school bully, a nasty piece of work, who tormented her victims relentlessly and mercilessly. She was the queen of high school cruel.
Even so, she didn’t really deserve her fate – to be brutally tortured until death, in its mercy, finally released her body from its gruesome earthly bonds. But Anne Faircroft wasn’t alone; three other female high schoolers in the Los Angeles core had met a similar, horrible fate.
Enter John Cooper, a veteran, hard-boiled L.A. detective. He and his partner Kelly McArthur have been assigned to take charge of the serial-murder case and he’s been told in no uncertain terms to find the killer and close the books.
One problem: Cooper’s ambitious boss, Commander Randall Sinclair, has this thing for Cooper – Sinclair wants the case solved because he’s on the fast-track at headquarters, but at the same time, he wants to pull the rug from under Cooper’s career.
He wants to destroy Cooper and will stop at nothing to do so. But that’s only part of Cooper’s troubles.
An inmate’s bungled attempt at escape from a downtown L.A. courthouse has put the lives of hostages at risk – and the only cop he’s willing to negotiate with is Cooper himself. If Cooper doesn’t show, if Cooper doesn’t hold up his end of the bargain, those innocent hostages are doomed to die.
That’s the central theme and fast-moving narrative of A Dish Served Cold, the debut crime-thriller novel of Ontario-based author G.S. Marriott.
A former cop himself, Marriott says he knows police procedure and the process of criminal investigations – and he understands the workings of the police mind and mentality.
And Marriott says he, just like Cooper, understands the politics of police headquarters all too well.
Marriott was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England before moving to Canada at a young age. When he was 20, Marriott joined the OPP, starting as a patrol officer and later becoming a criminal investigator.
He eventually transferred to the force headquarters in Toronto, where he worked in the intelligence unit and then the Hamilton Joint Forces Unit where he specialized in targeting major and organized crime.
Marriott lives in Cambridge with his wife Linda.
