Forty-one year old Andy is happily married and a proud father. He lives with family on the outskirts of London, England.
Diary of a Curtain Twitcher
Abigail's Lover
Raven Muses
Biography 2002
Forty-one year old Andy is happily married and a proud father. He lives with family on the outskirts of London, England.
Growing up in a film industry family helped encourage his creative personality, but he did not discover writing until later in life. His father Gordon (who sadly passed away in 2001) was a respected free-lance film editor, his last work being 'Thelma & Louise' on which he was an assistant dubbing editor.
Andy took up poetry as a form of therapy after the loss of his daughter Kira in 1997, and quickly became passionate about creative writing. In late 1998 he completed his first novel, a thriller titled 'Diary of a Curtain Twitcher' which is now available in trade paperback from Metropolis Ink.
Andy still enjoys writing poetry and short stories, but is focused on writing more novels and is aiming for the bestseller lists. His writing goals have (he says) become a tribute to those he's loved and lost. Andy's novels to date include: Diary of a Curtain Twitcher available in paperback at www.amazon.com or www.metropolisink.com 'Abigail's Lover' is available in e-book form from Able Books as is his book of twenty early poems 'The Raven Muses'.
'Deadpix' is Andy's third completed novel and is as yet unavailable, but it should be out there soon. Meanwhile Andy is working on his fourth novel and aiming high. So watch this space!
For more info visit Andy's personal web pages at www.thejays.nildram.co.uk
a thriller by
Andy J. W. Davie
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In British slang, a "curtain twitcher" is what most Americans would call a "Peeping Tom." John Joiner, our erstwhile hero, admirably fits this description. Joiner is a man whom tragedy struck, killing his fiancée and leaving him horribly crippled with an unreasoning fear of leaving his home. He lives, very modestly, in a pleasant home on a quiet street where he calmly watches his neighbors and writes of their exploits. Oh, not their actual exploits, but the fantasies that Joiner's mind creates to explain their actions. Strange, yes. Unusual, perhaps. But this pastime of Mr. Joiner has paid off, and he has become a respectable author under the pen name of Jack Jenoir. Joiner is living his life through the actions of his neighbors, watching them via high-tech surveillance equipment.
Enter the ballsy, no-nonsense Maria Coruna, daughter of Joiner's housekeeper. She doesn't understand how picky he is, or why he lives the way he does. She comes to clean house, and sweeps Joiner's heart up instead. He finds himself sharing his life with her, showing her how he watches his neighbors and turns what he sees into his novels. But in the process, they discover a murder plot and his safe haven of a home is no longer safe. Joiner finds that he must overcome his greatest fear to save the woman he loves.
If one was to combine Raymond Chandler & Orson Wells, add British style & mannerisms, a touch of Film Noir, shake well, and you would pour out Andy J. W. Davie. Twitcher is a well-written story that keeps the reader riveted to the page. It has all the qualities of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, with the mastery of suspense of a young Alfred Hitchcock. Twitcher leaves the reader hungry for more of Joiner and his Maria. Davie shows himself to be an up and coming author and one to be on the look out for in the future.
Richard Royce
a thriller by
Andy J. W. Davie
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The following review of 'Abigail's Lover' appeared at www.sharpwriterreviews.8m.com/review231.html
Reviewer Rating: * * * *
Title: Abigail's Lover
Category: Thriller
Author: Andy J W Davie
Imagine you suddenly find yourself in a lovely country cottage where all the bills are automatically paid, there is a Porsche in the garage, and an unlimited amount of money you can use to live comfortably on for the rest of your life. Oh yes, and the only person you have come upon is lying peacefully in the upstairs bedroom -- dead! Would you go immediately to the authorities, or try to find a way to keep this dream situation for yourself? That is the predicament Abigail West finds herself in in Andy J W Davie's thriller novel, Abigail's Lover.
Abigail literally crashes into this lovely, but gruesome scenario when she is out driving the country roads trying to forget her lover of eighteen months who forgot to mention he was married. After exploring the house, she finds a skeleton in the upstairs bedroom and months of unopened mail piling up in the front porch. Reading the mail, she discovers unsigned bank and credit cards, as well as a huge bank account that the bills are being paid out of automatically. The name, Alan Collier, is on these documents and she believes him to be the dead occupant of the bed upstairs. Since leaving her boyfriend has left her jobless and homeless, she devises a plan to stay on in the house for the time being, pretending to be the owner's girlfriend looking after the place. But when her best friend finds out about her situation, she urges Abigail to dig deeper into Mr. Collier's life in case he has any family to whom the money and house should go to. Grudgingly, Abigail agrees, and her search leads her to Florida where she finds herself an unwilling participant in an adventure of crime, deception, and intrigue.
Abigail's Lover is an interesting read from the first page. The author breaks the cardinal rule of novel writing by not using large amounts of dialog to hook the reader - and in this case, it works. He keeps the reader turning pages through the movements of the character, because you just can't wait to see what Abigail will do next. And just when you think Abigail is safe and sound, the author surprises you again in the last chapters.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a fun mystery/thriller.
Copyright © 2002 by Deanna Lynn Sletten
a book of twenty early poems
by
Andy J W Davie
Edited and compiled
by
Jeff Mullen
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Here is one of the poems from the anthology:
My Parents Tell Me
Some actually killed in their God's name,
others were bored, just playing a game.
Wars were fought over little plots of land,
and for something called oil, beneath seas of sand.
People even starved, from a simple lack of wealth,
but money went on weapons, but not on global health.
Then some dreamers grouped together, and tried to show the way,
Why at first no-one listened? Who the hell can say?
But the dreamers' numbers grew, on something called the net,
and my parents tell me now, the dream's not over yet.