Debrah Martin
Debrah Martin describes herself as the ultimate multi-tasker.
‘Sometimes I even have to remind myself who I am for the day,’ she admits.
That’s because she writes under three different pen names and in three very different genres. As Debrah Martin she writes literary fiction. Falling Awake is a dream-like tale where truth IS stranger than fiction. She also plots fast-paced and compelling thrillers as D.B. Martin, with the first in the Patchwork trilogy, Patchwork Man, out now. Its fallen hero, Lawrence Juste QC faces a future as tricky as his past when his previous misdeeds catch up with him and his dead wife blackmails him, apparently from beyond the grave. The second in the series, Patchwork People twists the knife even further when it’s released at the end of September 2014.
And not to be overlooked is her YA teen detective series, penned as Lily Stuart – THE teen detective. Irreverent, blunt, funny and vulnerable, Lily’s diary tells the tale of her mother’s internet dating spree – and the murderer she meets, interspersed between daily life as a teenager, with all its bitching, banter, and vulnerability. Webs is also due to be released in September 2014.
So why not stick to just one name and one genre?
‘Variety is the spice of life,’ she replies. ‘And I have all these ideas – they have to come out somehow!’
Debrah’s past careers have spanned two businesses, teaching, running business networking for the University of Winchester and social event management. She now makes do with chairing the Wantage (not just Betjeman) Literary Festival in her hometown when she’s not writing. She also has two daughters and a dog to organise.
‘See – more multi-tasking!’
You can find out about all of her books and latest releases on her websites debrahmartin.co.uk and lily-stuart.co.uk
‘Sometimes I even have to remind myself who I am for the day,’ she admits.
That’s because she writes under three different pen names and in three very different genres. As Debrah Martin she writes literary fiction. Falling Awake is a dream-like tale where truth IS stranger than fiction. She also plots fast-paced and compelling thrillers as D.B. Martin, with the first in the Patchwork trilogy, Patchwork Man, out now. Its fallen hero, Lawrence Juste QC faces a future as tricky as his past when his previous misdeeds catch up with him and his dead wife blackmails him, apparently from beyond the grave. The second in the series, Patchwork People twists the knife even further when it’s released at the end of September 2014.
And not to be overlooked is her YA teen detective series, penned as Lily Stuart – THE teen detective. Irreverent, blunt, funny and vulnerable, Lily’s diary tells the tale of her mother’s internet dating spree – and the murderer she meets, interspersed between daily life as a teenager, with all its bitching, banter, and vulnerability. Webs is also due to be released in September 2014.
So why not stick to just one name and one genre?
‘Variety is the spice of life,’ she replies. ‘And I have all these ideas – they have to come out somehow!’
Debrah’s past careers have spanned two businesses, teaching, running business networking for the University of Winchester and social event management. She now makes do with chairing the Wantage (not just Betjeman) Literary Festival in her hometown when she’s not writing. She also has two daughters and a dog to organise.
‘See – more multi-tasking!’
You can find out about all of her books and latest releases on her websites debrahmartin.co.uk and lily-stuart.co.uk
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Patchwork Man
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Suspense
Lawrence Juste QC finds himself tricked into taking a case defending a juvenile by his clever – but dead – wife. Normally he wouldn’t even have opened the folder without her around to persuade him, but she’s left something else to do that; a list of all the unsavoury facts from his past. The ones he’s carefully hidden until now and hadn’t even known she was aware of. Disconcertingly, the boy reminds him of himself and taking the case catapults Juste into a world that touches his own past with alarming regularity until it throws up the brother he betrayed as a teenager, the bully he’s done his best to avoid ever since and a disturbingly attractive woman. It also leads him on a journey rediscovering the family he rejected, answering for the murder he should have ensured was fairly tried, but didn’t, and finding himself – or the principles the man who styled himself Lawrence Juste once wanted to observe. By the time the book closes, the links to his forgotten family are re-established – as well as the childhood bully. And the one person who still seems to be the linchpin for all of it is his dead wife... Patchwork man is the first in the Patchwork People trilogy and 2015 winner of a B.R.A.G. Medallion.
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Patchwork People
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Suspense
Lawrence Juste is the perfect QC - with the not so perfect past. But with his meddling wife about to be laid to rest and his long term enemy silenced by the threat of exposure as her killer, the judge's mantle is almost round his shoulders. What could possibly go wrong for the brightest star of the courts? Plenty. A series of blackmail notes implicating him in murder – together with the ever-present threat of joining the murder victim if he doesn't pacify his blackmailer – keep Juste in suspense to the brink of desperation. No-one is what they appear to be, especially not him. And no sooner does he patch one hole in his fraying life than another appears. It seems it can only end one way; disaster – unless his dead wife can help... Patchwork People is the 2nd book in the compelling Patchwork People trilogy series of murder, mystery and lethal romance.
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Patchwork Pieces (Patchwork People, Volume 3)
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Suspense
“When Lawrence Juste QC, gentleman and liar, originally championed the case of the boy who reminded him of himself, he couldn’t have known precisely how much like him the boy would turn out to be. Or that the boy’s past was already as entangled in murder and betrayal as his own. Now the wheel has turned full circle. The past is the present, the betrayed are the betrayers and only the ultimate sacrifice can save both Juste and the boy. The only question ultimately remaining, as the patchwork completes: Who will be sacrificed? Patchwork Pieces is the final book in the Patchwork People trilogy of murder, mystery and lethal romance. “Complex, intriguing, shocking – a real thriller!’ “Twisty, twisty…love the characters, love the detail, love the unusual progress towards justice.” “A real Pandora’s box of a series…”
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Webs
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YA - suspense
Webs opens with teenager, LILY, facing a gun just before it is fired at her. The story then picks up with her attacker’s account of the events leading on from this and LILY’S diary recounting events leading up to it, starting three months earlier. The two narratives gradually converge. Alongside her own life and problems – her best friend MELEZZ, and her unreliability, her arch-rival for heartthrob, MATT’S, attentions – JAS, and her bitchery, and school with its academic impossibilities and ridiculous characters, Lily’s irreverent teenager’s diary tells of her mother’s foray into the world of internet dating and how it leads LILY to uncover a murderer. Told in turn by LILY and the anonymous murderer – her attacker from the opening scene, their combined story examines different perceptions of love, obsession and relationships, and between them they tell the story of The Russian roulette murder.
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