Hi there! This is J.L Rose: indie writer and whatever other kind of artist I feel like being that day. I’ve always had a love of storytelling, but didn’t want to make it my sole occupation, so I mainly just create things as a hobby and hope that people enjoy what I make. This website exists as a means for me to preserve all my work and make sure they always remain accessible to the general public.
Below, you’ll find records of all the works I’ve officially released, as well as up to date information on what platforms they’re available on.
I hope you enjoy what I have to offer.
Existing Works
A Maid in Four Parts; Or A Giallo for Our Time
“Evil isn’t done by the choice of a rational mind; it’s done by impulse”
When a teenage girl is found dead with her legs severed and missing, the aging Lieutenant Love expects to react to the scene with apathy. Instead, the corpse stirs emotions in him which he’d spent decades burying. Propelled by a need to understand these feelings further, he quickly links the murder to a sexploitation ring operating at a local high school. But as he interviews the girls involved and befriends their counsellor – a young man devoted to protecting them – memories from Love’s own youth begin to resurface. Soon, the counsellor becomes a mirror of Love’s lost idealism, and he finds his fixation on the girls he’s investigating growing obsessive to the point of madness. As his mind slowly unravels and his friendship with the counsellor is tested, Love can only wonder if he’s still sane enough to save the girls, or if his hunt for the killer will end up damning them all. Written as a homage to Italian giallo cinema, A Maid in Four Parts marries literary fiction with a pulp slasher murder mystery to explore the definitions of morality, justice and love in a world hellbent on muddying them.
Available on E-book and paperback on:
Amazon
Apple Books (e-book only)
Rakuten Kobo
