Hello and welcome to the INSATIABLE by Emily Kimelman Blog Tour presented by Betwitching Book Tours. Please join me in welcoming Emily to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Emily. Please be sure and check out Emily's Novel INSATIABLE book #3 in the A Sydney Rye Novel. Emily is here today and she is going to tell us about A Day in the Life of Author and Vagabond Emily Kimelman.
Title: INSATIABLE
Series: A Sydney Rye Novel Book Three
Author: Emily Kimelman
Genre: Dark Murder Mystery
ISBN: 1470136023
ISBN: 13: 978-1470136024
Number of pages: about 320
Word Count: 75,000
Cover Artist: Autumn Whitehurst
BOOK DESCRIPTION
INSATIABLE
INSATIABLE is the third novel in my Sydney Rye Series of dark murder mysteries. This series feature a strong female protagonist and her canine best friend. It is recommended for the 18+ who enjoy some violence, don't mind dirty language, and are up for a dash of sex. Not to mention an awesome, rollicking good mystery!
INSATIABLE begins with private detective Sydney Rye living a simple, disciplined life in London, but when a dangerous man from her past calls, Rye finds she cannot turn him away. Robert Maxim explains that the daughter of a powerful friend has gone missing and he wants Rye to find her. In exchange he offers her something she had given up hope of ever having; freedom from her past.
With her dog, Blue, at her side, Rye meets up with her new partner, a handsome man she's not sure she can trust. Heading for Mexico City, they go undercover, posing as husband and wife. After meeting with the bereaved parents, Rye starts to sense that there is more going on than just a missing girl. But it isn't until they arrive in the Yucatan Peninsula, hot on the girl's trail in Paradise, that all hell breaks loose. Sydney has to reach out for help from old friends and deal with the consequences of her past, if she's going to find the girl and keep them all alive.
EXCERPT
INSATIABLE
We climbed the steps to the lobby. There was no one behind the front desk. We ducked into the cool stairwell. It was a relief to be out of the sun. My run from the ship left sweat on my forehead and pooling on my back. Ana Maria's face was red with exertion and we climbed the steps slowly, enjoying the shaded path.
Our door stood slightly ajar. I leaned against it to open it more, but it stopped six inches in. My heart started racing. Where was Blue? Why hadn't he greeted me yet? I jumped back, knocking into Ana Maria as a piece of wood smashed into where my head had been. "Ana, run!" I heard her feet racing back down the steps as a man stepped through the door. He looked like a boxer. His nose was so mashed that it looked abstract. His forehead was small, a patch of white between his brown hair and his dark eyebrows. His eyes were sunken and black. They looked like the eyes of a rodent, a mouse.
I held my fists in front of my face preparing for a fight. He swung his board of wood at me, I ducked under it. The furry costume was slowing him down. On the balls of my toes, I stepped to the left and struck at the side of his face. I hit his ear. He turned to look at me, but I was already back in front of him. I struck at his lip this time and stepped around again.
Blood pooled on his split lip and mixing with saliva, journeyed down his chin. I went in low with a right hook and put all my weight into his stomach. It was like punching a stuffed animal. He grunted, recovered quickly and I felt the breeze the wood made as it missed my face by less than a millimeter. This guy was slow-moving. He wasn't as good as me.
Blane knew my training; Ana Maria's parents wouldn't be so stupid to send an amateur after me. He swung again and this time I caught the wood, twisted it against his thumb and wrenched it from his hands. He looked surprised as hell when I went to bash him in the face but stopped a half an inch short. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
His eyes rolled in their sockets away from the wood to my face. "I was gonna bring you in."
"How about you answer some questions instead?" He nodded his head. "Firstly, where is my dog?"
Guest Blog
A Day in the Life of Author and Vagabond Emily Kimelman
January 5, 2013. Goa, India.
It was Lulu's howling bark that woke me. The sound of a rumbling scooter faded down the road. I heard Abhi, our host, on the phone talking in Hindi with snippets of English woven in.
When he said, "Sean, Sean man, come here," and giggled, I started to pay attention.
I followed my husband's footsteps as they moved from the living room into Abhi's office. "Oh sh*t," he said.
"Welcome to the tropics," Abhi said, laughter scratching at his voice.
"Do they bite?" Sean asked. And that was it, I was up.
A colony of very tiny ants marched across Abhi's office forming a thick, vibrating swathe of black. We crouched around them and tried to guess why they were all suddenly there and what they were doing? Our questions unanswered, the day continued.
After eating a breakfast of "smushed egg" (medium boiled, crushed with olive oil, salt and pepper), buttered toast, and pomegranate seeds that Anita, the cook, wrestled from their protective shell, Leslie, our hostess, and I sat at the table drinking Chai and working. At 12:30pm we headed out to the supermarket.
Leslie steered her little orange car along thin dirt roads, through congested traffic circles, and past foul smelling drainages, all the time chatting and laughing, shifting, and honking, only occasionally cursing the crazy drivers with whom she shares the road.
At the market we climbed to the second floor where a meat room, un-airconditioned, stank of fresh flesh. Under the stark light of fluorescent tubes, two boys and a man carved up cuts of cow, chicken and pig. After ordering we stepped aside, out of the thick air, waiting where we couldn't see the stained walls splattered with bits of bone and fat.
We had Lassi's in the car to rejuvenate ourselves after the heat and smells of the market. At home, Anita waited with chicken curry, dal, rice, home made chapatti, lightly pickled beets and a salad of diced cucumbers and red peppers.
The afternoon was spent on the veranda, writing. The sun slipped down the west side of the world and cast a pink haze over the landscape. Leslie, looking up from her computer, said it was time for a walk.
Dragging and tapping a wooden stick about the width of a thumb, Lulu by her side, Leslie lead me around the neighborhood. A lazy river wound through green fields of neatly planted crops. Leslie pointed out a temple, pink and blue, framed by palm trees. A pack of aggressive dogs, once lead by a terrifying alpha male (recently killed by a snake), barked at us from behind a low wall.
Only pale-blue streaks of light remained in the sky when we returned to the house. The old Portuguese-Style Goan home, with it's terra cotta tiles, peaked roof, and friendly veranda glowed gently amongst the jungle foliage. I felt very happy to share it's world, if only for a short time.
Emily Kimelman's first novel UNLEASHED received the "Awesome Indie" of the year award in 2011 and is a Kindle Top 100 bestseller. The follow up novella, DEATH IN THE DARK, was released in December 2012 and debuted in the Mystery Kindle Top 100. INSATIABLE, the third book in the series released January 2013 has joined the other Sydney Rye mysteries on the bestseller lists for Hard Boiled and Mystery.
The Sydney Rye series is recommended for the 18+ who enjoy some violence, don't mind dirty language, and are up for a dash of sex. Not to mention an awesome, rollicking good mystery!
During the summers Emily lives on the Hudson River aboard OUR WAY, her trusty trawler, with her husband, Sean, and their dog, Kinsey (named after Kinsey Milhone). The rest of the year they are vagabonds and can be found anywhere from Goa, to Paris, to New Orleans, to San Francisco. You can follow Emily on Twitter, Facebook, and her blog where she shares photos from her travels and updates on the Sydney Rye series.
- About the Author
Emily Kimelman lives on a boat in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Sean and their dog Kinsey (named after Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone). Kimelman has a passion for traveling and spends as much time as possible in the pursuit of adventure.
Her Sydney Rye series feature a strong female protagonist and her canine best friend. It is recommended for the 18+ who enjoy some violence, don't mind dirty language, and are up for a dash of sex. Not to mention an awesome, rollicking good mystery!
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