BOOKSTAGRAM TOUR: Light Sleeper by Sean O’Leary

Easy money. Dangerous clients. And a world that’s getting harder to escape.

We’re heading into the gritty streets of 1990s London for our latest Love Books Tours Bookstagram Tour.

From 12th–16th August, our LBT Crew will be reading and reviewing Light Sleeper by Sean O’Leary, a fast-moving crime novel about a nineteen-year-old who finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a world he may not be able to escape.

At just 152 pages, this is a shorter crime read that packs in dangerous deals, corruption, violence and the consequences of believing you can walk away whenever you choose.

About Light Sleeper

Author: Sean O’Leary
Genre: Crime
Pages: 152
Publisher: Next Chapter Publishers
Publication Day: 5th August
Bookstagram Tour: 12th–16th August

The Blurb

Nineteen-year-old Jay is content with his life, pouring drinks in the cool SoHo Bar in Kings Cross in the ’90s and dreaming of escape.

But when his girlfriend Edie draws him into a seedy business, Jay finds himself slipping deeper into a world he cannot control.

With a disgraced ex-cop as their supplier and a network of dangerous clients, what started as easy money quickly turns dangerous. Looming over them all is a corrupt detective who rules the streets through fear.

When blood is spilled and his friend, boxer Ricky Angel, is nearly destroyed, Jay realises that he might not be built for this life.

But will getting out cost him everything?

Welcome to 1990s Kings Cross

There’s something about a crime novel with a strong sense of time and place that immediately pulls you into its world, and Light Sleeper takes us straight into the heart of Kings Cross in the 1990s.

Jay is only nineteen. He works behind the bar, has a girlfriend and dreams about getting away.

Then comes the promise of easy money.

It’s a familiar temptation, but Sean O’Leary places Jay in a world where each decision seems to pull him another step further from the ordinary life he once knew.

A disgraced former police officer. Dangerous clients. A corrupt detective. Violence that is suddenly very real.

Before long, the question is no longer whether Jay wants to be part of this world.

It’s whether he can still get out.

Meet Sean O’Leary

Sean O’Leary is a Melbourne-based writer of crime and literary fiction.

A prolific writer, he has published five short story collections, four novellas and four novels, as well as more than fifty short stories in journals.

Away from his writing, Sean likes to walk everywhere, take street photographs and, in his own words, “write like a demon”.

He is also a firm believer that Test cricket is the greatest game of all.

Follow the Bookstagram Tour

Our LBT Crew will be sharing their reviews from 12th–16th August.

Click on each Bookstagrammer below to visit their account and follow the tour.

Read Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper by Sean O’Leary is available now.

The book is also available through Kindle Unlimited, so KU subscribers can support Sean by reading through their subscription.

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Light Sleeper by Sean O’Leary

Join Us on Tour

We’ll be following our LBT Crew from 12th–16th August as they step into Jay’s world and share their thoughts on Light Sleeper.

If you enjoy gritty crime fiction, morally complicated characters, corrupt cops, dangerous choices and stories where seemingly easy decisions spiral into something much darker, this could be one to add to your list.

Follow along throughout the week, visit our reviewers and discover what they think.

A huge thank you to Sean O’Leary, Next Chapter Publishers and every member of our LBT Crew taking part in the tour.

Kelly & the Love Books Tours Team

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