Debut Spotlight: Roz Levens

Today it's my pleasure to be shining the spotlight on author Roz Levens and her debut novel Pack of Lies which was published last month.

Roz Levens has always been nosey. Don't take her for a cup of coffee, because she'll be watching the people behind you, and scribbling notes like 'lampshade hat, odd knees, likes cats' onto the back of a receipt scavenged from the depths of her bag.

'Pack of Lies' is Roz's first voyage into noveldom. Previously she has been published in lots of anthologies of short stories, and she won the coveted Worcester LitFest Flash Slam Challenge of 2017 . It's the only trophy she's ever won, if you don't count shares in a youth club ten pin bowling cup back in nineteen hundred and frozen to death.

She plots while walking Reg, her border collie. Oh, the tales he could tell...

Nervously, I got into the car. This was going to be the longest trip that I had taken since lockdown began, ten weeks previously, and my heart was hammering. The old red Vauxhall groaned and rattled all the way to my destination, and I prayed to the God of Knackered Old Cars to let me get there in one piece, without breaking down or blowing up.

After just half an hour the city sign appeared. Cautiously, I joined the traffic in the right-hand filter lane and pulled into the car park, checking my phone as I put the handbrake on.

‘Silver Merc, far side, under trees, boot open.’