Dead Cat With Firelighter

About the Book

Set amid the extreme worlds of modern art and famous lives, this black comedy takes a wry look at the making and breaking of icons.

Inhabiting both landscapes are the sinister Vaughan Darke, classical aesthete and hit-man, and his post-modernist counterpart, Hayden Curtis. These men can raise or dash hopes for people such as the enfant terrible of contemporism, Justin Peters, and the beautiful starlet, Chloe Collins.

How can an artist of no talent be raised to cult status and an also-ran actress achieve immortality? And why is Chloe’s husband only one of the people trying to kill her?

About the Author

Frances has written many short journalistic pieces that have been published in newspapers and on BBC Radio, but Dead Cat With Firelighter is her first novel. She has also written reviews of contemporary art which is one of her great loves, being a collector of ceramics and minimalist work. She also writes short sketches and plays for local performances. When not writing, Frances is a technical computing consultant. She lives in the English Cotswolds with her partner, three alpacas and two cats.