Congratulations to Ali Steed on winning the thriller category in the Best Indie Book Awards 2024.

The annual Best Indie Book Award is an international literary award contest recognizing outstanding achievement by independent authors. Entries are limited to independently (indie) published books, including those from small presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors.

I am so proud of all my authors, but this book has been years in the making, and the excellently plotted story and emotive and relatable characters are testament to the graft Ali’s put into making DCI Cramer and the team come alive.

Being indie means you have to spin many plates all at once, and it’s been a pleasure to work with Ali as she’s thrown herself into the process of being an indie author – and she even allowed ALL IT TAKES to be a guinea pig in my formatting ventures, which I am very grateful for. So it’s wonderful to see official recognition of her efforts here! I

ALL IT TAKES by Ali Steed

DCI Caroline Cramer and the team are hunting a brutal serial killer who leaves a chilling calling card: a Bible quote related to the occult and an item that doesn’t belong to the victim.

The pressure to catch the killer rises with the body count, and each murder is becoming increasingly daring. When events take a turn that forces Cramer’s fiercely guarded private and work life to collide, the team has just five days to catch the killer before he can strike again.

As the clock ticks down, Cramer must give everything to stop him before it’s too late.

‍

‍