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By Cat Connor
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Following a major fundraising event for the Butterfly Foundation, formed by Special Agents Ellie Conway and Mac Connelly, to offer sanctuary and support to the children of mentally ill parents, Ellie is sent to the first of many horrific crime scenes.
Now a Supervising Special Agent, Ellie is confronted with identifying the connection between the victims. Events and puzzling clues which include bourbon, chlorine and gold ribbons, draw Ellie into a maze which includes a serial killer, Eastern European terrorists with military connections and conceivably, the Pentagon.
Women are being murdered, children are missing and the trail is bizarre. After a phone call purporting to offer information, Ellie puts her life in jeopardy, walks into a trap and is assaulted and severely stabbed. With her psycho-prophetic talents, Ellie anticipates and protects future victims and deciphers the underlying reason for the murders.
Bypassing her boss, Special Agent in Charge Caine Grafton, Ellie pulls in a favour from the highest level in order to close borders, airports, train stations in an attempt to trap Hudson Hawk, believed to be responsible for these and similar crimes in Europe.
The denouement leaves Ellie facing a terrible reality and a grievous loss. |
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Cat lives in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, with her husband and the youngest three of their seven children. She is a long time member of Backspace.org, (an online writers group). Cat is very active on MySpace, as are her two main characters (Ellie Conway and Mac Connelly), which is proving to be a lot of fun. In the last few years her short stories have appeared in ThrillerUK, Mystericale, Bewildering stories, T-zero, The Writers Post Journal and Conceit Magazine. Currently Bewildering Stories are considering another of her shorts.
The idea for her first Conway novel, Killerbyte, came about after Cat received a string of death threats while co-running a poetry chat room, back in the days of MSN chat. The thought that people could get so nasty online fascinated her. The second novel, Terrorbyte, grew from a conversation about living with a mentally ill parent with the real life model for Mac Connelly.
Cat worked in a voluntary capacity for the Police, for five years, going out on late-night patrols, learning and implementing surveillance techniques, and even wangling her way into search and seizure operations, etc. This provided a great source of information for her writing (and still does). She carried out extensive research of locations and procedures (picking the brain of a Special Agent friend), including having friends visit and document the locations she chose – in Virginia.
Cat took part in Nanowrimo in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, she used Nanowrimo to write the fourth Conway novel, Ethernet. Cat’s currently working on the fifth Conway novel, Satellite.
You can find Cat on My Space, Facebook, Twitter, and her blog.
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