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July 4th update: French Fried (the book that used to be called Nous Sommes Anglais) is now up and ready for download from Book View Cafe for $3.99. It's also up at Amazon and Smashwords. The first two chapters of the new, polished version have been uploaded here. Other chapters will follow.
The first six chapters of International Kittens of Mystery have been posted for free at BVC. You can Meet the Kittens, Marvel at their Technology, and Be Entranced by their Awesome Superpower. If you liked my Kitten's Guide series you'll love International Kittens of Mystery - lots of pictures of cute kittens saving the planet.
Don't forget Magical Crimes, a fun CSI with magic story, available as an eNovelette on sale here at Book View Cafe or here at the Amazon Kindle store. It's only 99 cents and it comes, DRM free, from BVC in all the popular eBook formats. Amazon may charge more for international delivery.
Free eBook! Download Resonance here or visit the Baen Free Library.
Who is Chris Dolley?
- He's an English author of science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels (see Bio for more details)
- He's the man who convinced Fleet Street that Cornwall had declared independence (see Free Cornish Army)
- He's the man who should never have moved to France. See Nous Sommes Anglais for the first eight chapters of a move to France that saw his identity stolen, his life savings seized and how, abandoned by the police forces of four countries, he had to solve the crime himself. Which he did in one of the most bizarre and comical investigations ever.
- His debut novel, Resonance, was the first book to be plucked from Baen's electronic slushpile. It was published in November 2005 and entered Amazon's US SF&F bestseller chart in December. (See Resonance to read the excellent reviews)
- He's a member of the author publishing collective Book View Cafe - along with Ursula K LeGuin, Vonda N McIntyre, Sarah Zettel, Katherine Kerr, Laura Anne Gilman, Pati Nagle... the list goes on.
- He was one of the first computer games designers, writing the most aggressive chess program ever and inventing the most dangerous game ever played - the Giant Wrigley's Spearmint Gum Cliff Top Relay. See Confessions of a Pioneer Computer Games Designer for the complete story.
- He's worked with Milla Jovovitch, Daniel Auteuil and Luc Besson. (See Confessions of a French Film Extra)
RESONANCE
 Don’t step on the cracks - everyone knew the sense of that. One of the first things you learned as a child. But too many people forgot. Or didn’t care.
Graham Smith cared. He knew that paving stones set the cadence of a street; that cracks regulated the stride length and set the resonance that kept everything stable and harmonious. Step on the cracks and the street slipped out of kilter. Imperceptibly at first. Minute changes around the edges, a new person living at number thirty-three, a strange car outside number five. Step on the cracks too often and … well, anything could happen. He’d seen houses turned into blocks of flats overnight. Parades of shops come and go. Terraces demolished, office blocks erected. All overnight when no one was looking.
The world was a far more fragile place than people realised. And every now and then a thread would work loose and something or someone would unravel.
SHIFT
 Imagine a world where there's more than length, breadth and depth. Where there are other axes of movement. A true eleven-dimensional universe. And then throw in a discovery that the human brain protrudes into these higher dimensions.
Welcome to the world of SHIFT. A multi-dimensional thriller where the detective has to get inside the mind of a killer - the hard way.
A serial killer with multiple personalities. A born-again astronaut. A world on the brink of disaster. Only Nick and Louise can save the planet - if they live that long
 Magical Crimes is a fun CSI with magic and ‘a little something else’ story. The little something else being two foot long and lurking in the hero’s trousers. But don’t worry, the boinkwurst in this story is used purely for the purpose God intended – humour and crimefighting – not lustful titillation.
Seb Kemp is a psychic profiler with a problem. After a night out drinking some men wake up with an unexpected tattoo. Seb woke up with a floor-length boinkwurst and no memory of how, when or where it happened. To make matters worse, magic doesn’t work well with living tissue. The results are unpredictable. The spell might fade after a few days or ... something might drop off.
He needs help but, Pete, his forensic magician partner, is 3,000 miles away working on another case and Seb’s new partner is of the young and female persuasion. Not to mention extremely hot. The two of them are thrown together to solve a high profile locked room mystery where the utmost tact and diplomacy is required – not easy for a man with unpredictable trousers.
 In an uncertain world there is one organisation that stands head and small furry shoulders above the rest. Whenever the planet is in danger – be it from giant balls of wool or bands of renegade squirrels – only one group is guaranteed to answer the call.
The International Kittens of Mystery!
This is a journal of their stories. For the first time, cameras have been allowed into one of their top secret training camps – Training Camp Alpha. A camp where, under the supervision of pet humans, recruits are shown not only how to save the world but also how to manage their secret identities – how to blend in and infiltrate the human society that they alone can protect.
 Animals behaving badly, other people's misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. French Fried is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley’s first eight months in France and has been described as ‘A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.’
Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris’s identity has been stolen and their life savings – all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance their new life in France – had disappeared. A bank account had been opened in Chris’s name in Spain to take the proceeds.
Then they’re abandoned by the police forces of four countries who all insist the crime belongs to someone else's jurisdiction. The French say it’s an Irish crime as that’s where the money was held. The Irish say it’s French as that’s where all the correspondence came from. The British say it’s nothing to do with them even though forged British passports were used to open the bank account in Spain. And the Spanish are on holiday – and can’t even think about investigating any bank account for at least four weeks.
So Chris has to solve the crime himself. But unlike fictional detectives he has an 80 year-old mother-in-law and an excitable puppy who insist they come along if he's going anywhere interesting - like a stakeout. |
