Saffina Desforges
I am a crime - thriller fiction writer. I live in England and have been writing since school.
First, it was stories about 'what I did in my summer holidays', then it was a "rather too imaginative" Hallowe'en short story in Primary School that scared my classmates! I once got grounded when my mum received a call from a neighbour, complaining that the story I had told her son had given him nightmares; he still talks about it today!
Teachers described me as "talented, but easily distracted, with a vivid imagination!" There really was no other path.
It went from there...
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First, it was stories about 'what I did in my summer holidays', then it was a "rather too imaginative" Hallowe'en short story in Primary School that scared my classmates! I once got grounded when my mum received a call from a neighbour, complaining that the story I had told her son had given him nightmares; he still talks about it today!
Teachers described me as "talented, but easily distracted, with a vivid imagination!" There really was no other path.
It went from there...
SaffinaDesforges.com twitter facebook sapphicscribe.com
Snow White
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?
From the acclaimed Kindle-UK best-selling author Saffina Desforges (Sugar & Spice) comes a sensational new crime thriller series.
The Rose Red series takes British crime thrillers in a new direction, with a fast-paced, action-packed detective fiction, each based on the theme of a classic fairy tale.
Forget plodding police procedurals. Think 'Ashes To Ashes' meets the James Patterson’s 'Women’s Murder Club'.
Snow White is book one of the Rose Red series. DI Cass ‘Red’ Rose is a feisty female cop fighting the usual battles that go with being a senior detective in London’s Metropolitan Police.
Most coppers go home and forget about it. Not so easy when your partner is a leading criminal defence lawyer. As one fights to put them away, the other tries to get them off.
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A priceless artefact is stolen en route from the Louvre to the Victoria & Albert Museum and now the mysterious Queenie wants The Huntsman to get it back. For Red the case is a distraction from the more pressing matter of hoodies terrorizing the elderly on London estates.
But when Red’s boss and mentor is targeted by the Huntsman things get personal. Very personal.
Set in modern-day London, Snow White is a fast-paced, gritty urban thriller that will leave you wondering whether fairy tales really do have a happy ending.
Rose Red Book 2: Rapunzel will be available late 2011.
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From the acclaimed Kindle-UK best-selling author Saffina Desforges (Sugar & Spice) comes a sensational new crime thriller series.
The Rose Red series takes British crime thrillers in a new direction, with a fast-paced, action-packed detective fiction, each based on the theme of a classic fairy tale.
Forget plodding police procedurals. Think 'Ashes To Ashes' meets the James Patterson’s 'Women’s Murder Club'.
Snow White is book one of the Rose Red series. DI Cass ‘Red’ Rose is a feisty female cop fighting the usual battles that go with being a senior detective in London’s Metropolitan Police.
Most coppers go home and forget about it. Not so easy when your partner is a leading criminal defence lawyer. As one fights to put them away, the other tries to get them off.
~
A priceless artefact is stolen en route from the Louvre to the Victoria & Albert Museum and now the mysterious Queenie wants The Huntsman to get it back. For Red the case is a distraction from the more pressing matter of hoodies terrorizing the elderly on London estates.
But when Red’s boss and mentor is targeted by the Huntsman things get personal. Very personal.
Set in modern-day London, Snow White is a fast-paced, gritty urban thriller that will leave you wondering whether fairy tales really do have a happy ending.
Rose Red Book 2: Rapunzel will be available late 2011.
Amazon.com
Amazon.UK
Sugar & Spice
When you've got two young children, and you think the unthinkable, where do you turn?
Sugar & Spice is a ground-breaking new crime-thriller set against the background of Britain’s fragmented criminal justice system, with the key protagonists the mother and partner of a murdered child.
Inspired by a news story of a man who begged a Judge to give him a longer sentence, because he knew he would harm another child if released without treatment, Sugar & Spice is meticulously researched, asking the questions society prefers not to have answered. At once disquieting and challenging, Sugar & Spice is car-crash reading.
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: A child fails to return home. As hours turn to days, all they can do is hope. Some children never come back...
The story opens when two boys find the severed arm of a missing child. For the distraught mother, Claire Meadows, and her partner Matt Burford, the arrest of local sex-offender Thomas Bristow seems to offer closure. But doubts soon emerge. The Met officers who “interview” Bristow are from the Gene Hunt school of policing, and the confession appears worthless when another child is killed while Bristow is on remand awaiting trial.
Driven by a mother’s need to know, Claire visits Bristow in prison. He presents a compelling defence, convincing Claire not only that he is innocent of harming her daughter, but that his previous convictions were not what they seemed.
Running parallel to this we meet Greg Randall, respectable accountant and utterly devoted father of six year old twins. But for Randall, the murder has brought to the fore private demons he has long been struggling to cope with:
Fearing he might one day lose control, Randall seeks counselling at a prestigious private clinic, licensed by the Home Office to treat sex-offenders. Randall’s struggle to balance his family life as he undergoes “therapy,” runs alongside the hunt for the child-killer, until eventually the two story-lines inexorably converge.
With the Police inquiry floundering, Matt and Claire embark on their own investigation, teaming up with a second-year psychology student and a fourteen year-old truant schoolboy to bring one man’s reign of terror to an end.
Warning: The research is meticulous, and the characters based on real-life studies.
This is a novel every parent should read.
But be warned: In Sugar & Spice not all things are nice...
Available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble/nook and Smashwords
