Miss Smith Commits the
Perfect Crime
by Guy Rolands
Miss Smith Commits the Perfect Crime?
Recovering from a brutal attack where she was savagely raped, university student Sam Smith attempts to rebuild her life and overcome the ongoing effects of her ordeal. Her ultimate goal is to bring her assailant to justice, but before she can do so her life and loves take a series of intriguing turns as she continues her sometimes unconventional education.
Eventually she is able to identify her attacker and decides to exact retribution in her own particular style, but during her preparations Sam becomes aware that her every move is being tracked by a mysterious organisation. To avoid detection by the police and also her hidden watchers, Sam Smith attempts to commit the perfect crime. However in the aftermath of her vigilante action events change rapidly to bring about a most unexpected outcome.
Miss Smith Commits the Perfect Crime? is the first book in the Sam Smith Adventure Series and can be read as a standalone.
Purchase Links
UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Smith-Commits-Perfect-Crime-ebook/dp/B083M79QWB
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JENA’S REVIEW
Miss Smith Commits the Perfect Crime?: The Sam Smith Adventure Series Book 1 by Guy Rolands
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have found my new favorite book. And it’s the first book in The Sam Smith Adventure Series! Books 2 and 3 are available and now that I’ve gotten to know this international woman of mystery, I can’t wait to join Miss Smith on her further adventures.
First, I will I will tell you more about the first book in the series, Miss Smith Commits the Perfect Crime, which is categorized as Women’s Action & Adventure Fiction. When we first meet university student Sam Smith, she is crawling through a vast, stinky pig farm in the dark of night. As we get to know her more, we learn that she is…
Exceptionally moral
Committed to justice
Excellent at everything she does
Perfectly under control
Beautiful
Extremely Intelligent
…among other things.
So, we have a wonderful and fresh new character to bond with. We also have a book that is well-written, as perfect as Miss Smith herself. Written in the lean and precise style of a class British crime thriller, this book has memorable characters, and a plot with just enough twists and turns to be fun. We learn special spy skills.
Leeds and Yorkshire provide the setting, which I liked because it is a venue I don’t visit often in books. I even noted the marvelous use of the passive voice- it really adds some drama! A touch of humor finishes my list of superlatives. Here’s an example. A man on his deathbed explains his actions, “I’ve made my bed. Now I must lie in it.”
What happens to Miss Smith as the book unfolds? Plenty. She meets Ari, who is a great guy who believes in the “just cause”. She goes from being the victim of a brutal crime to becoming a secret agent. But first, she has a lot of loose ends to tie up. What happens to Miss Smith as the book unfolds? Plenty. She meets Ari, who is a great guy who believes in the “just cause”. She goes from being the victim of a brutal crime to becoming a secret agent. But first, she has a lot of loose ends to tie up. Which she does, perfectly.
As I have much in common with Miss Smith, I did some investigating and discovered the following about the author, Guy Rolands. This is the pen name of former TV producer and director Guy Caplin. During his exciting career, he created many shows for the UK ITV network. Over the past fifteen years, he has been a guest lecturer for P&O and Cunard, averaging around three or four cruises a year. At the same time, he produced corporate videos for an international company throughout Europe and Scandinavia.
Fantastic book. I hope Netflix comes calling at your door soon, Mr. Rolands. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for a digital advance review copy. This is my honest review.
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Guy Caplin worked in television broadcasting for over 40 years and is one of the few people to have achieved success in both the technical and artistic branches of the medium. He has worked with many celebrities including, the Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope and Maria Callas.
He moved to ITV’s Yorkshire Television in 1969 as a Producer and Director of Sport, Outside Broadcasts and special events. Among the many programmes he devised was the quiz programme “Winner Takes All” fronted by Jimmy Tarbuck and Geoffrey Wheeler, which under his tenure was regularly amongst the Top Ten TV programmes and twice reached the coveted Number One Spot.
When the final series of the hit American programme Dallas ran into technical problems in Hollywood in 1989, Guy left YTV and joined a UK broadcast engineering company to try to come up with a solution. The solution proposed resulted in the creation of the DEFT process, which although too late to be used on Dallas, was used initially on the Simpsons and subsequently on Friends, Frasier, Superman and many others America series. DEFT was awarded an Emmy for outstanding technical achievement.
Back in the UK Guy owned and ran a company creating video productions for both broadcast and industry, was a freelance trainer at the BBC and a visiting tutor at the National School of Film and Television
For the past thirteen years Guy has also been regular lecturer for P&O cruises and Cunard and has effectively travelled twice around the world.Now, having closed his video company, he spends his time writing under the name of Guy Rolands and has now completed four novels in the Sam Smith Adventure series. Having worked all over the world and encountered hundreds of remarkable characters, his experiences provide colour and
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