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EITHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT

Benjamin Stevenson

  • Original Title: EITHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT
  • Publication date: September 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House AUSTRALIA
  • Country: AU
  • 336 print pages
  • Crime fiction/Thriller

Information

  • Epoch: Contemporary
  • Time Period: 21st century
  • Location setting: Australia
  • Themes: FAMILY, Siblings, PEOPLE facing life, Search for the truth, Death, Facing failure, PEOPLE facing the extraordinary, Manipulation, Revenge, Rivalry

Pitch

One million viewers witness a popular TV presenter commit suicide live on air - yet his twin brother is convinced it was murder. He teams up with a disgraced former producer to try and find evidence of foul play.

Comments

The novel is inspired by the real life case of Michelle Carter, convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison in 2014 for encouraging her boyfriend Conrad Roy to commit suicide.

EITHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT and GREENLIGHT can be read as stand-alone thrillers, or two parts of a series. Each title stands alone with a unique story and a shared lead detective.

GREENLIGHT has sold over 10,000 copies across print, ebook and audio in Australia and New Zealand alone.

Benjamin Stevenson is an Australian stand-up comedian and author. He has sold out shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has appeared on ABCTV, Channel 10, and The Comedy Channel. Off-stage, he has worked for publishing houses and literary agencies in Australia and the USA. He currently works with some of Australia’s best-loved authors at Curtis Brown Australia.

Summary

One million witnesses. One impossible murder.

At 9.04pm, Sam ‘Midnight’ Midford delivers his light entertainment monologue to kick of his nightly current affairs show. He’s nervous and his assistant is convinced he’s about to propose to his girlfriend live on air. But instead of a ring, he pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head.

Sam’s grief-stricken twin brother Harry, already feeling guilty that they had grown apart in recent years, is convinced Sam was murdered. But how can that be, when one million viewers witnessed Sam pull the trigger?

So Harry turns to Jack Quick, a crime podcast producer recently released from prison for withholding evidence on a previous case. Jack used to work at the TV channel where the tragedy happened - so maybe he can get Harry access to the crime scene and tapes. Harry knows Jack is desperate for money so will take on the case, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

And Jack is sceptical - until, when studying the tapes of the final show, he catches sight of the words on the teleprompter reflected on the screen behind Sam.

Did someone talk Sam into killing himself? What secret did Sam have that would be enough to compel him to take his own life, and in such a public way? And how is this linked with the suicide of Sam’s childhood sweetheart 20 years earlier?


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  • Author’s biography

    Benjamin Stevenson is an Australian stand-up comedian and author. He has sold out shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has appeared on ABCTV, Channel 10, and The Comedy Channel. Off-stage, he has worked for publishing houses and literary agencies in Australia and the USA. He currently works with some of Australia’s best-loved authors at Curtis Brown Australia. GREENLIGHT (2018) is his first novel.