Sinema, Rod''s second novel, has now been published and is available in paperback, hardback and e-book.
Sinema is a modern day dark thriller with a distinct element of black comedy running through its core.
The main character is an anti-hero; a fantasist and a movie fanatic who has decided to try to beat the record for the number of murders committed by a single individual serial killer. He chooses a remote village in the heart of Northumberland as his target and sets about planning the systematic murders of the entire village of 392 inhabitants.
The small village of Haydon is populated by an array of strange and unique characters, and many have significant problems of their own, oblivious of the killer who walks among them. Behind the quiet and quaint walls, infidelity, voyeurism, drug and alcohol abuse and theft are rife, to name but a few. And, in amongst the boiling under current, someone else is planning the perfect untraceable murder of his adulterous wife.
As the stakes are raised and the worst Northumberland winter in more than a century approaches, the only guarantee is that blood will flow.
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
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