The Showbiz Thriller Trilogy
Bandwagon
RELEASE DATE: 28th March 2020
ISBN Paperback: 9781838592981
ISBN Ebook: 9781838598020
Life hasn’t turned out how Danny Owen expected it to. Formerly an investigative journalist, today a radio reporter reluctantly covering celebrity and the music industry, focusing on glitz, glamour and the gaudy stars.
Danny is offered an exclusive interview with Martha, the star of the forthcoming Martha Movin’ Out tour, but when he arrives at Elstree Studios he discovers that rehearsals are not going well. Not suspicious initially, but then things take a dire turn when he learns that Martha has disappeared. With the concert tour potentially in ruins, Danny and occasional lover Daisy DeVilliers, the tour’s PR, team up beyond the call of duty in an effort to find Martha and rescue the tour.
Soon Danny and Daisy are unwittingly inveigled into the murky world of people smuggling, blackmail and international organised crime. They pick their way through a minefield where one wrong move could not only blow the rescue attempts but could also end their own lives. In a duplicitous world where people show only their best side, trusting the wrong person could be the last thing they ever do.
Red Light and Bell
RELEASE DATE: 28th February 2023
ISBN Paperback: 9781803135878
ISBN Ebook: 9781803134338
Daisy DeVilliers, celebrity PR, and Danny Owen, former investigative reporter, sit hand-in-hand in the VIP seats enjoying the much-anticipated return of global pop-megastar Martha. Following the kidnapping and dramatic rescue of the star and her sister, neither thought this glamorous night would ever happen. The ecstatic audience are demanding encore-after-encore. Martha is back!
As the final notes die away, there is pandemonium — the policeman seated next to Daisy is assassinated by a sniper. Daisy is covered in blood and gore. Martha is bundled off the stage to safety. The sniper meets a grizzly end macerated by the propellers of the boat on which he was trying to escape.
But why was the policeman killed? Mistaken identity or deliberate act? Who orchestrated the murder and why? Soon Daisy and Danny are forced out of their showbusiness comfort zone into high-level corruption, international organised crime, attempted cover-ups, and governmental chest-stabbing. The tension romps to a climactic political ending with some grizzly detail in between — all too believable with our current politicians and parties.
Featuring more well-informed behind-the-scenes entertainment action — who to trust in the duplicitous world where celebrity, the police, security services, and politics collide? This exciting page-turner takes you far and wide to Elstree Studios, the 02 Arena, the Houses of Parliament, inside the Security Services, and to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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About the author
Richard Cobourne writes with a multi-award winning production background in broadcast, corporate, and global events — working with some of the biggest names in the business-of-show all over the world, giving readers a deep understanding of the shenanigans of the industry and celebrity demands.
His career began working for the BBC, initially in the sound department of radio, TV, and outside broadcasts.
In 1990, he co-formed a media production company later sold to pursue a career as a freelance consultant creative producer, voice artist, and to enable him to write full-time.
Richard is a member of The Ivy Club, National Liberal Club, and voting member of BAFTA.
He lives with his wife in the Wye Valley bordering South-East Wales with England, and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.