![]() ![]() "As soon as I started to read it, it felt familiar," the Englishwoman later explained. I learned of what she'd done after being contacted last autumn by a woman called Donna Patel, a self-confessed avid reader of crime fiction, who had come across the book on Amazon Kindle. I only found out by chance that this other author of whom I'd never heard before had taken our book and was passing if off as her own. ![]() On the contrary, it was the guilty author who was protecting herself. It was also set in Cork, and all the character's names had been changed - though not to protect the innocent. I'd never even re-read the novel until last year, at which point I discovered that it was suddenly called 'Tear Drop', and the author's name was 'Joanne Clancy'. Eventually, it fell out of print, as books do. It sold well it won an award it was translated into German, French, Italian and Dutch the BBC bought the film rights, though sadly the project bit the dust after a few years in that infamous place known as 'development hell'. ![]()
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