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Thin Ice [Kindle Edition]

Huw Thomas
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Women are dying… and Danny Harper’s life is in pieces.

"When the feeling comes it is like a flood… a faint prickling in his palms and then it is everywhere: swelling up, consuming his thoughts, sweeping through his body. It is fire and ice: a storm of calmness, a torrent of silence. It is the rapture and it has come to sweep him away..."

THIN ICE: Everything is going perfectly for young journalist Danny Harper: a new flat, a career on the up and the girl he loves about to marry him. Then he wakes in hospital to find none of it’s true.

Refusing to admit he’s imagined it all, Harper tries to regain his lost life. But, while his claims are initially dismissed as delusion, he knows secrets that can’t be easily explained.

THIN ICE is the story of what happens when two parallel universes collide – one world where Danny Harper’s life is a success, the other where it’s a mess.

When Harper is involved in an accident his lives flip: the failure ends up in hospital in a coma, the success wakes in a world where all the important things in his life are missing.

Stuck in the ‘wrong’ life, Harper starts trying to deal with this new, alternative existence. But in the process he has to deal with something that casts a new perspective on his problem – a deranged killer with a fanatical obsession for the ‘sins of woman’.

In Danny Harper’s ‘real’ world, the killer has already been caught. But in this alternative world - partly due to a mistake by the 'other' Harper - the killings have so far gone undetected. And the latest victim is a complete innocent.

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Product Details

  • File Size: 713 KB
  • Print Length: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Engine House Press (January 1, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0073SSN6U
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,219 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Living on the thin side of Black Ice May 12, 2012
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Thin Ice is Huw Thomas's fourth title and the first that I have read of his work.

In "Thin Ice" we are introduced to two Danny Harpers. The first Danny, the main character, is riding a bicycle on a country road and is in an accident with an out-of-control car sliding on black ice.

After a banged up and bruised Harper wakes up in the hospital, he soon discovers that he is no longer in the England he knew or the same body.

In addition, Rebecca, his fiancée and the woman he loves doesn't know him in this alternate England causing Danny to fall into a depression. He decides he has to win this Rebecca's (Becca to Danny) heart, which makes for some interesting reading to see how he manages to pull this off -- or not.

In this alternate universe, the first Danny discovers he has inherited the unhealthy body of a Danny that was a heavy drinker and smoker. In addition, instead of being an editor with a secure job, Danny is now a reporter on "thin ice" in danger of losing his job.

It doesn't take long before Danny discovers that a wealthy and powerful deranged serial killer already in jail in the England he came from hasn't been caught yet in this alternate world, and Danny knows where the bodies of several dead woman will be found after they are murdered, but some of them are not dead yet. Armed with this knowledge, Danny risks his life and sets out to stop and catch the killer and save some of the intended victims.

"Thin Ice" is a cleverly crafted book, which kept my attention from start to finish. Although I found that the novel could use a professional copy editor to clean up a few misplaced words, those minor glitches did not distract from enjoying the story. Usually an author is the last person that should copyedit his own manuscript, so do not be surprised if you run into a few of these errors in the narrative, but at the same time, don't let that stop you from reading this entertaining, complex story. In other words, ignore the "trolls".

I read for two reasons: to learn and/or be entertained--not to harp on the occasional slip of a distraction. The odds favor that anyone who reads for the same reasons, will enjoy this novel.

After training as a journalist, the author, Huw Thomas, worked on a number of regional newspapers around the UK - covering everything from sheep shows to major murder inquiries. According to the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald (established in 1860), "FORMER Herald reporter Huw Thomas won first place in the national final of the Undiscovered Authors Writing Competition for general fiction, winning a prize of Ł10,000 plus publication of his book, The Tale of Findo Gask.

The first novel by Thomas was The Tale of Findo Gask (July 2007) about a 20th century British-orphan and thief without an identity; the second was Fractured Lives (Dec. 2011), a collection of short stories, and his third was The Vault (March 2012).

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A word about the rating system which I have borrowed/adapted from Alice Wakefield in an attempt to keep the star rating system meaningful.
* 4 stars from me are high praise, meaning I enjoyed the novel and recommended it.
* 3 stars mean I enjoyed the book and recommend it with some reservations.
* 5 stars are reserved for work that reaches the level of a classic, such as a National Book Award, a Pulitzer or a Nobel Prize winner that would compare to a Steinbeck or Mark Twain, which means the author impressed me beyond the average, entertaining book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite book April 26, 2013
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Had a hard time getting into the book and it didn't hold my interest. Didn't meet my expectations. Have read a lot of great
books but this wasn't one of them.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing story April 7, 2013
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I will not give a summary of the tale since the description and other reviews do a fine job of that. I found this book to be well-written and entertaining. I liked the unique concept and the way the author delivered the tale. It kept me interested. I would read more by this author.
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More About the Author

Writer, traveller, cyclist and gardener: I've always been a dreamer - I wrote my first 'book' while at primary school and making up stories has long been one of my favourite occupations.

I was born in Southampton, England, in 1965 and grew up in a small market town called Romsey.

Over the years that followed I worked as a journalist, PR consultant, gardener and, most recently, teaching English in Portugal.

My latest novel - Pagan's Sphinx - came out on 1st December 2012. This one's published under the pen name William Webster as it's a bit different from my other books. 'Pagan's Sphinx' is an adventure story about an archaeological expedition hunting for a lost statue that may provide a link to the lost civilisation of Atlantis.

My first novel - The Tale Of Findo Gask - was published in 2006 after winning the national final of a UK competition to discover new authors. I've also written several other books and published a collection of short stories.

'The Vault' is published in aid of the disaster relief charity ShelterBox http://www.shelterbox.org (I've been involved with this charity for a few years - I was previously in charge of PR & Fundraising at its UK HQ and in 2010-11 my wife and I undertook a 10,000-mile tandem bike ride in aid of ShelterBox!)

Please visit my blog - at http://hdthomas.wordpress.com - for more information about me and my books, as well as some of my thoughts on being a writer and the creative process. You can also find me on Facebook - look for 'Huw Thomas author'.

I'm always happy to hear from readers - contact me via the blog or Facebook.

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