John Hunt Publishing - Roundfire - announces the new title

Red Nocturne

Bill Mullen

LILLY REBECK finds herself completely alone in the wake of her father’s death in Afghanistan, her mentor’s abandonment, and her mother’s growing detachment, her only solace being her violin. Driven by loneliness, curiosity, and a unique musical connection, Lilly befriends a mysterious Russian tenant upstairs, unaware that her newfound friendship with this woman would plunge her into a world of arson, murder, and fleeing both the FBI and Chechen mafia. When her world collides with Alexei Volkov, a Russian immigrant paying off an old debt to Chechen mafia, and Anna Stern, a tormented and overworked FBI agent, Lilly must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for a woman that she has grown to love as a mother, a woman that could be a spy.

Author Bio
Bill Mullen was born in England and holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio. He now lives in Kentucky where he teaches literature and composition at Eastern Kentucky University. Red Nocturne is his first novel.

Promotional Plans
Website and social media. Readings and signings at local universities, bookstores, and at MFA residencies.

USP
Discusses the false sense of security US citizens had after the end of the Cold War.

Competing Books
How to Catch a Russian Spy (9781476788821), by Naveed Jamali
Scribner, 2015

Categories
FICTION(FIC031000) -> Thrillers(FIC031000)
FICTION(FIC006000) -> Espionage(FIC006000)
FICTION(FIC043000) -> Coming of Age(FIC043000)

 

Publication Date
March 2016

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-279-9
$19.95  |  £11.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
336PP

eBook
ISBN: 978-1-78535-280-5
$7.99  |  £4.99

Library of Congress
2015915219

Distributed to the trade by National Book Network in US; by Orca Marston in UK
Publisher contact: [email protected]
roundfire-books.com