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Sales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comtwitter.com/starbooksalesADVANCE INFORMATIONA BloodWinterNeil ColeyKEY SELLING POINTSAthrillingcombinationofScienceFiction,CrimeandHistoricalFictionsetinVictorianLondonandYorkshire (Whitby).Offersacompelling narrativeaswellasafascinatingtakeon19thcenturysocialhistory. Two undercover alien visitors view and analyse Victorian society.Follows on from the author%u2019s earlier book An Alien Autumn (Troubador, 2021)Aftersuccessfully tracking down the perpetrator ofthe Jack theRipper murders (as told inAnAlienAutumn, thefirstbookoftheseries)theundercoveraliensfromtheplanetJara,FirstCommanderAshtoandApprentice Commander Atia, continuewiththeir secret mission to discover asmuch information as possible about the Earth.However,theirresearchis againinterrupted by themurderous activities of anotherruthless serial killer whohastakento leavingtheheadlessandbloodlessbodiesof youngmaleprostitutesaroundtheEastEndof London.As thetwoalienssearchto find theidentity of this elusive blood obsessed murderer,theyalsomeetwithsome of theprominentliteraryfigures of theage includingthewriterandwit OscarWildeand BramStokerthecreator ofthemostfamoushorrornovelofthe19thcentury,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. ABlood Winter is a sequel to his first novel, An Alien Autumn.Comparative title: 9781800464063 An Alien Autumn (Sept 21)Publication Date: 28th November 2024 %u00a39.99 ISBN:9781836280378 Themasubjectcategory:FL%u2013Sciencefictionpaperback 198 x 129 mm 336 pp Portrait Author location: Lichfield