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Kiki Coto
A novel by Edward Avanessy
A thriller that moves between crime, conscience and the unseen: 372 pages of suspense in which every choice carries a weight the characters cannot fully measure.
Tellwell Talent16 November 2021372 pagesEnglish
About the book
Crime, suspense and the question of what justice actually costs.
- Crime thriller
- Suspense
- Spiritual fiction
Kiki Coto is a crime thriller with a spiritual spine. It follows a sequence of events set in motion by violence and pursued through investigation, pressure and consequence, in a story where action and reflection are given equal room.
The novel keeps its momentum in the physical world: pursuit, danger, the practical mechanics of hiding and being found. Alongside that runs a second current, in which the characters confront the possibility that the events surrounding them are not purely material, and that justice may be accounted for somewhere other than a courtroom.
What emerges is a story about morality under pressure. Edward Avanessy is less interested in whether the guilty are caught than in what the pursuit costs everyone involved, and in the quiet moments where a character decides who they intend to be.
Readers who like their thrillers propulsive but not weightless will find both here: a tightly driven plot, and a set of questions about faith, retribution and mercy that outlast the resolution.
Justice and retribution
Where the law reaches its limits, and what people do at that boundary.
Morality under pressure
Choices made quickly, and the long shadow they cast over the people who made them.
The physical and the spiritual
A crime narrative that takes seriously the possibility of an order beyond the visible one.
Consequence
No act in the novel is isolated; each one moves outward through other lives.
About the author
Edward Avanessy
Edward Avanessy is a novelist working at the meeting point of crime fiction and spiritual enquiry. His storytelling is built around ordinary people placed under extraordinary pressure, and the decisions they make when no one is watching.
Kiki Coto, published by Tellwell Talent in 2021, is his full-length thriller: a fast-moving narrative that keeps one eye on the street and the other on what the street cannot see.
A thriller earns its pace honestly only when the stakes are moral. Plot should move fast, but the question underneath it should stay with the reader after the last page.
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- Title
- Kiki Coto
- Author
- Edward Avanessy
- Publisher
- Tellwell Talent
- Publication date
- 16 November 2021
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 372 pages
- ISBN-13
- 978-0228853664
- Genre
- Crime thriller, suspense and spiritual fiction
- Availability
- Available now as a Kindle edition
Formats
- Kindle edition372 pages
- Additional formatsFurther editions to be confirmed
Readership
Why read this book.
If these are the shelves you browse, this novel is likely to sit comfortably among them.
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Crime thrillers
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Mystery
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Spiritual fiction
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Action
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Suspense
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Psychological storytelling
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