We’re excited to be giving away two copies of Something He Did by SK Lynch to our GrownUps members!
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In the gridlocked heart of Melbourne, a split-second of road rage changes everything. For one driver, the crash is a bizarre stroke of luck that sets their life on an upward trajectory they never thought possible. For the other, it is the first domino to fall in a terrifying downward spiral.
Detective Sergeant Claudia Russo, meanwhile, doesn’t care about car accidents – she’s focussed on the search for a missing eighteen-year-old girl. But the girl’s father, a man defined by entitlement and influence, is playing a dangerous game. He’s more afraid of his own double life being exposed than he is of his daughter never coming home.
Claudia has secrets too: her personal life is a mess and an on-the-job romance threatens to unravel the career she is so desperate to get back on track.
As all their fates become more entwined, the lesson must be learned: Be kind. Or suffer the consequences.
Something He Did (Ultimo Press) is the first crime novel from bestselling New Zealand author and journalist Sarah-Kate Lynch, writing as SK Lynch.
“A switch from writing foodie rom-com novels to gritty television shows unleashed a thirst for dark twists and turns I didn’t know I had,” Sarah-Kate says.
“This, combined with a growing frustration at injustices both big and small, personal and professional, colluded with a real-life road rage incident to spark the idea – what if a single collision causes one life to soar while the other crashes and burns? And who should pay the price?”
Sarah-Kate says Something He Did is the first thing she has written out of rage.
“My journalism and columnist career vanished overnight when the Bauer magazine group pulled out of New Zealand in the first week of Covid. My subsequent TV writing and producing career also ground to a halt after my third series attracted rave reviews but no second season. My next project didn’t get funding.”
Sarah-Kate found herself voiceless at 60, despite being at the height of her creative powers, with a wealth of writing and lived experience.
“Nothing leading up to that point in time had led me to expect I would be in this position. I had been good at what I did. I had been successful. So how is it that I ended up being so… invisible?”
Into the heartbreak of this mixture of resentment and grief stepped the book’s lead, Detective Sergeant Claudia Russo.
“She is unapologetically the manifestation of my fury at being relegated to the sidelines of my own life. What if you’re not a people pleaser? What if you’re spiky on the outside to protect a damaged heart? What if you want the world’s arseholes to find out that actions have consequences? What if you don’t care if you’re difficult?”
The result is a twisty, compelling thriller with an ending readers won’t see coming.
About the Author
A former journalist, broadcaster, columnist, travel editor and published rom-com novelist, SK Lynch created and wrote three thrillers for television – including Three Now hit Friends Like Her – before a road rage incident in Melbourne inspired her to turn back to print, this time on the darker side. The result is her crime debut, Something He Did. She currently lives with her film art director husband and unemployed dog in Melbourne and is working on a sequel called Something She Saw.
Click here to see an exclusive article from SK Lynch
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