We’re thrilled to announce Neil Coley has signed with us his heartfelt mystery, Once Below A Time!
Neil Coley’s commitment to serious, full-time writing started once he had retired from his 35-year teaching career and over the last few years he has been the author of many successful non-fiction and fiction books. He has also published the first two parts of a science fiction trilogy, An Alien Autumn and A Blood Winter, both set in late Victorian London, as well as a crime mystery novel, The Cold Distance, which is partly set in the 1970s and partly in the present.
Once Below A Time is a novel about many things: regret, loss, friendship, disappointment, nostalgia and the way in which people can be haunted by the past. What makes the iconic but aging rock star Jimmy Stephens kill himself while staying at a budget hotel in an English seaside resort? Television documentary makers gradually uncover the secrets of Jimmy Stephens’ life. His last words, which might explain the reason for his final fatal act, are proving difficult to discover…







