If you're a lover of strange and gothic fiction, there's a good chance you're familiar with our next Motives Unknown author -- Lauren Archer, for the rest of you, is a surreal fiction writer based in Liverpool. The idea for I MUST GO DOWN came during lockdown, and Lauren spent much of her time cycling along the Liverpool canal towpath. The waterway, the Lock & Quay Pub, and the thought to what would become of it all in the near future when rising sea levels turn it into a floodplain, culminated in a story about a body and the two fishermen set on figuring out what happened to it. Find Lauren amid the work of eleven other writers in MOTIVES UNKNOWN, an anthology of short crime fiction based in and around the North of England, where the cases grow cold, and the circumstances look bleak. Publishing 01/05/25 - more information at the link in bio! #crimewriting #amwriting #newauthors #newbooks