Murder On Board Book Launch in Gorey Guardian

I met with Cathy Lee, a journalist with the Gorey Guardian last Tuesday and we had a great chat over a coffee in Gorey when I did the bulk of the talking! Anyway, she went away and wrote the column below which hopefully will flag up to all the launch on 27th June at 7:00 pm in Gorey Library of this exciting new book.  Sorry about the photograph but I did offer her three and this is the one she chose!

Holidays bring out the best and worst in people. Taking an adult only cruise holiday to the sunny Caribbean in mid-winter seemed a great idea.  What could go wrong?

Join Luke and his wife on the cruise of a lifetime which is memorable for all the wrong reasons as passengers die and tensions rise.

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New Crime Fiction novel for 2019 still on pre-release at 99 cents/pence

Murder On Board is still only 99p/99c at the moment! 

If you’d like to feed your eReader with this life-thrilling read … here are the links to download! The release is scheduled for May 2019 

Amazon UK – 99 Pence/ Cents 

Amazon US - $1.32

New 2019 crime fiction novel available for limited period on pre-order

New 2019 Crime Fiction

Murder On Board is a crime fiction novel which is bursting with incidents that will grab your attention from the very first page.

On page one you will meet Luke and his wife in their hotel room on the morning they fly to join their cruise of a lifetime. They have a challenging timetable of buses, planes, trains and taxi’s which all have to work seamlessly to enable them to make the 5.00pm sailing from Southampton.

Outside their Dublin, Ireland hotel, at 7.30 am, on a January morning, the barometer is struggling to touch zero degrees but in their minds, they are already in holiday mode, focused on the balmy 25 degrees they will encounter in the Caribbean.

This is a transatlantic cruise where they will cross the Atlantic Ocean both coming and going home. That in itself is a challenge as the ship will encounter 5 days of stormy weather before they reach the Azores and another 5 days before they reach Bermuda. Fortunately, the cruise is a fifty-day voyage so there will be plenty of time to get a tan, visit the odd World Heritage site, pop into Cape Canaveral, travel up the Everglades and up the Amazon River.

Oh, and learn a new skill, bridge, ballroom dancing or painting.

Don’t people die as well?

Well, yes they do, but I don’t want to put any of you, prospective travellers, off taking a cruise, with stories of deaths on board. It happens. People die everywhere, in toilets, at home in bed, driving cars, at work. Death is just another part of living. There is a morgue on board, which is rather full at the moment.

So there isn’t a murderer on board?

Now I didn’t say that did I? Did I?

There may well be one on board but please don’t spread it around. There are 2,000 passengers and 800 crew on board and the last thing we want is to instil panic.

Remember this is a holiday of a lifetime for this geriatric group of passengers. Please don’t ruin it for them by telling them about a murderer who is killing people.

Just keep that stiff British lip buttoned and just enjoy the cruise. Let’s face it you can’t get off! We are 3 days from land.

Murder On Board by Mark Rice is on a Special Pre-Order price - 99p/99c
Please follow this Link - https://geni.us/FxaA8 to avail of this limited offer.

Releasing on 2nd May 2019 via Junction Publishing

Welcome to "Murder On Board" Free Book Offer

Welcome to my site where I will give you access to everything that happens in the development and publishing of a crime fiction murder thriller novel. Though I say it myself, it's a cunningly well-written book that brings you onboard a huge modern cruise liner, the SS. Azara, where you will spend the next 50 days travelling across the world, sharing the voyage with a murdering passenger.

Have you been on a cruise?

No. Then this book will inform you in all the activities that go on when ships go to sea and spend days sailing before reaching dry land again. I know that before I took a cruise the thought of spending days in a tin can bouncing across violent seas was more the stuff of my nightmares than my dreams. The reality I found out was quite different and now I'm only sorry I didn't take to cruising earlier.

Yes. Well, you know what to expect on most ships but this one is a little different. The length of the cruise to start with. In 50 days you will visit 17 ports and some are ones that you may not have visited yourself. The adult only nature of the cruise changes the dynamics onboard. The average passenger age is upped by 10 years so that 73 years of age is average on this ship.

Oh - and I forgot to mention the ship is sailing one thousand miles up the Amazon River!

You also get to meet some very interesting passengers and crew, about 3,000 of them.

All of this and a murderer on board too. What could be better?

The book is being published in a few months by Junction Publishing and will be available on Amazon and Kindle

Please make sure you don't miss a stroke of the pen by submitting your email address on this site.
The first 50 to submit their email address will get a review copy of the book for FREE.
Yes, a Free Book Offer !!

I will update this site when I have registered the first 50 but right now this offer is open to you. The free book will be available after it has been carefully edited by my publisher which is a work in progress. I will be posting regularly to keep you in the loop. Thanks for visiting a have a great 2019.

Mark Rice signs book deal with Junction Publishing

I'm delighted to announce that Junction Publishing is publishing my next book "Murder On Board" will a release date of May 2019.  Get a taste of the action by reading "Murder In Maspalomas" which delivers an enjoyable crime thriller in a page-turning style.