The Experiment
by Robin Lamont
on Tour August 1-31, 2019
Synopsis:
Jude Brannock is a brash and single-minded female protagonist for today’s readers who believe that nature and animals deserve our respect and must be protected. In The Experiment, author Robin Lamont brings these forward-looking themes to her newest suspense novel.
Jude is an investigator for an animal protection organization. When the young man she has trained for an undercover job suddenly vanishes after a tantalizing text that he’s “on to something,” Jude rushes to the quiet, farming community of Half Moon, only to discover that her trainee might have perpetrated an elaborate con job on her. Determined to get to the truth, she unearths a biopharmaceutical company’s deadly secret, and in doing so, comes up against dark secrets of her own.
Book Details:
Genre: Suspense Published by: Grayling Press Publication Date: May 15th 2019 Number of Pages: 288 ISBN: 0985848588 (ISBN13: 9780985848583) Series: The Kinship Series Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
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Author Bio:
Before becoming a novelist, Robin was a popular Broadway actress and singer, turned private investigator, and then New York prosecutor. She draws on these diverse careers for her work, infusing suspenseful plots with character-driven drama. Robin’s prior work has garnered awards and recognition, including Suspense Magazine’s Best of the Indies and a Gold Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for her novel If Thy Right Hand. Her book The Chain, which introduced Jude Brannock to readers, was a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist. Her screen adaptation of the book, Six Seconds, is currently under option.
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Guest Post
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a conference on animal protection, and I met an unusual woman. We’ll call her Jane, because she’s an undercover investigator for an organization dedicated to animal welfare. Tall, attractive, great smile and more than a hint of hurt in her eyes.
In some ways I felt as though I was looking at the lead character in The Experiment, Jude Brannock. The two women share a love of their job and a willingness to sacrifice to protect animals from abuse. I started The Kinship books because after a lifetime of reading suspense/thrillers that centered around cops, PI’s, and sleuths all seeking justice for human crime victims, I thought it high time to craft a series about someone seeking justice for voiceless animals.
There are, in reality, many people working in the animal protection movement doing just that. But I’ve always been drawn to the brave young men and women who go undercover. Perhaps it’s because I was an undercover investigator before I became a prosecutor and then a novelist. My work involved going after counterfeiters of luxury goods. It didn’t involve the day-to-day anguish of seeing animals treated as inanimate objects in a laboratory or witnessing the suffering of pigs or cows in overcrowded factory farms, but I knew personally the dangers and internal tension of being an undercover.
I got to go home every night, something that Jane can’t do – not if she gets a job (the ultimate goal as an undercover) at a laboratory or a factory farm. And it may take a long time to get the evidence you need. With that comes much greater risk.
In The Experiment, Jude describes it as, “hanging out in the wind alone for weeks. No backup. No one at the listening end of a body wire to hear the dreaded words, ‘Who the hell are you?’” And her experience taught her that once the target discovered he or she had been scammed, they harbored an intense animosity. “It was often humiliating for them. They hadn’t merely been hustled, they’d been stabbed in the back by someone they thought was a colleague, an employee, maybe a new friend – and that someone had been looking for the right place to thrust a knife the whole damn time. It could get ugly.”
I’ve tried in the book to re-create that sense of danger. I promise there is no violence portrayed to animals, but for Jude it’s one hell of a bumpy ride. I welcome readers willing to come on that ride with her and Jane.
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