[Sam Turner 05] • Shooting in the Dark

Angeles Falco seemed like something straight from a 1950s detective movie when she walked into Sam Turner's office. All she would say was that she and her sister were being followed - by whom or for what purpose she didn't know - and she feared for their lives. Sam would be only too happy to help Angeles... but soon he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies will try to destroy his attempt at a new life. A tale of obsession, loneliness and occasional depravity...

This is the fifth Sam Turner novel. It’s about being blind and sometimes looking too hard. It’s about not being able to see the wood for the trees and sometimes seeing things that simply could not be there, watching and being watched.

I wanted to write about voyeurism and readers and writers and to discuss the enigma of the different ways we all choose to see the world we share.

“John Baker is a very classy writer. He has got the telling of this story down to an art form. The pieces of the puzzle we are allowed to see are intriguing and pull us into this intelligent novel.

“The villain is seriously bad and creepy, he would give Hanibal Lecter pause for thought. and the hero and his colleagues are real people, when you read about them they do not seem to be fiction in any way. This is way, way above run-of-the-mill crime fiction. Pure Class.” Ottaker’s The Verdict – Issue 2