Orenda Books is delighted to celebrate publication of Matt Wesolowki’s dark, thought-provoking new thriller Deity with an online launch.
The fourth in the critically acclaimed, award-winning Six Stories series, with a ‘true crime’ podcast-style narrative, Deity sees online journalist Scott King investigate mega popstar Zach Crystal, who died in a suspicious fire at his northern Scottish retreat. Allegations of sexual abuse against young girls were levied at him before his demise, and yet his many legions of fans refuse to believe them. As always, the story veers into supernatural territory, in an exciting, genre-busting thriller.
Titles in the Six Stories series have been longlisted for countless awards, including the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and Beast won the Capital Crime Independent Voice of the Year Award.
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Early praise for Deity includes:
A captivating, genre-defying book with hypnotic storytelling’ Rosamund Lupton
‘A chilling, wholly original and quite brilliant story. Deity is utterly compelling, and Matt Wesolowski is a wonderful writer’ Chris Whitaker
‘Matt Wesolowski taking the crime novel to places it’s never been before. Filled with dread, in the best possible way’ Joseph Knox
‘A gripping exposure of the underbelly of celebrity and obsessive fandom with lashings of supernatural horror – Daisy Jones and the Six gone to the dark side. I couldn’t put it down’ Harriet Tyce
‘Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction’ Benjamin Myers
‘Dark, twisty and incredibly clever. Matt Wesolowski is an author to watch!’ C L Taylor
‘A dark, twisting rabbit hole of a novel. You won’t be able to put it down’ Francine Toon
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Matt Wesolowski will be joined by Catriona Ward, whose highly anticipated thriller, The Last House on Needless Street, will be published later this year, and the event will be masterfully guided by Dr Noir, Jacky Collins, crime-fiction expert and founder of Newcastle Noir.
This event is free to attend, however we do encourage you to support the authors in any way you can and Deity and The Last House on Needless Street are available to order online now. Signed copies of both books are available EXCLUSIVELY from our partner bookshop, Forum Books: HERE
To sign-up for the event, email – cole@orendabooks.co.uk
You will receive a confirmation email once you register, and on the day of the event itself will be sent details for attendance. Please ensure you have downloaded Zoom. We will be taking questions on the day of the event via the chat function.
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Matt Wesolowski
Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror ction has been published in numerous UK- and US-based anthologies, such asMidnight Movie Creature, Sel es from the End of the World, Cold Iron and many more. His novella, e Black Land, a horror set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013.
Matt was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015. His debut thriller, Six Stories, was an Amazon bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and lm rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio. A prequel, Hydra, was published in 2018 and became an international bestseller.Changeling, book three in the series, was published in 2019 and was longlisted for the eakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Book four, Beast, won the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Independent Voice Book of the Year award, 2020.
Follow Matt on Twitter @ConcreteKraken and on his website: https://linktr.ee/MattJW.
Catriona Ward
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Her debut Rawblood won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, and was a WHSmith Fresh Talent title. Little Eve won the Shirley Jackson Award, was a Guardian best book of 2018 and won the Best Horror Novel at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards. She lives in London and Devon
Dr. Noir (Jacky Collins)
Dr Jacky Collins, formerly Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University in Literature, Film & TV and Spanish Language & Culture, currently based at Stirling University, is also known as Dr Noir. In 2014 Jacky established the International Crime Fiction Festival that is Newcastle Noir. More recently, she has been venturing into local radio, co-hosting a fortnightly crime fiction programme on SpiceFM, hosting on-line literary events with the Honey & Stag events team, and is part of the Corylus Books team, a new indie publisher of crime fiction in translation: from Romania, Iceland and beyond
