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A Blood Winter

Neil Coley

KEY SELLING POINTS

A thrilling combination of Science Fiction, Crime and Historical Fiction set in Victorian London and Yorkshire
(Whitby).
Offersacompelling narrativeaswellasafascinatingtakeon19thcenturysocialhistory.
Two undercover alien visitors view and analyse Victorian society.
Follows on from the author’s earlier book An Alien Autumn (Troubador, 2021)
After successfully tracking down the perpetrator of the Jack the Ripper murders (as told in An Alien Autumn,
thefirstbookof theseries)theundercoveraliensfromtheplanetJara,FirstCommanderAshtoandApprentice
Commander Atia, continue with their secret mission to discover as much information as possible about the
Earth. However, their research is again interrupted by the murderous activities of another ruthless serial killer
whohastakento leavingtheheadlessandbloodlessbodiesof youngmaleprostitutesaroundtheEastEndof
London.

As thetwoalienssearch to find theidentity of this elusive blood obsessed murderer, theyalso meet withsome
of theprominentliteraryfigures of theage includingthewriterandwit Oscar Wildeand Bram Stokerthecreator
of themostfamous horrornovelof the19thcentury,Dracula.

WhenAshtoandAtialeave LondonforthefirsttimetheirtravelstakethemtothepicturesqueYorkshirecoastal
townof Whitby whereideasaboutvampireloreandcreaturesof thenighttakehold in themind of Stokerwho
also has his eyes on the beautiful Apprentice Commander.

Neil Coley is theauthorof 9 books. Hebeganhiswritingcareerwithaset of storiesabout Lichfieldwhere he
lives. Several other non-fiction books about Lichfield were published before he turned his hand to fiction. A
Blood Winter is a sequel to his first novel, An Alien Autumn.

Comparative title: 9781800464063 An Alien Autumn (Sept 21)

Publication Date: 28th November 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781836280378
Themasubjectcategory:FL–Science fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 336 pp Portrait Author location: Lichfield

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