About Her Stolen Passenger:
An enthralling kidnap thriller about regret, desperation, and the power of a grieving mother.
An immense and terrible fire erupts through the remote rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Wu can’t save both the infants in her care as the building around her collapses and destroys everything in the isolated clearing. She clings to the only boy in reach and flees from the inferno moments before an explosion ends the life of the second child.
Wu weeps as she stares into the round face of a child with low-set ears and a thick neck; this boy has down syndrome, and he is not Wu’s son.
Wu’s child has perished in the blaze, and there is nothing she can do for him.
In a split-second decision, Wu puts her stolen passenger, Harrison, into a car and drives away from her son’s smouldering grave. She must escape because she knows that Harrison’s biological family will murder her and push Harrison into a life of crime as soon as he is old enough to carry a gun.
The only way Wu and Harrison can be free and safe is for Wu to run for her life with Harrison’s soul and fate tightly woven with hers.
Harrison’s grandmother, Harp, chases Wu through Queensland and Sydney as Wu struggles to sleep beside the road and hide in the darkest shadows of any outback town. Wu presses Harrison to her bosom and flees in a desperate and riveting escape, but Harp’s violent lifetime of nomadic prostitution and armed robbery has given her the skills she needs to hunt Wu across the country.
With a reward posted, every killer and criminal in Australia is searching for Wu. How long can she possibly run?
Harrison’s fate will be decided by this epic struggle between his kidnapper and his grandmother, but who deserves this second chance at life and starting an innocent family?
Her Stolen Passenger is a story about murder, kidnapping, and the emotional battle of two women who want to use the purity of a child to escape their evil lives. However, it’s also an attempt to include more people with a disability in literature. In Australia, one in every five people is diagnosed with a disability. Wouldn’t it be cool if this number was more evenly represented in literature?
Each of Daniel Norrish’s future releases will include at least one character with a realistic disability.
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Author Bio:
When Dan’s not tapping away on a computer keyboard, he brews black beer and watches rugby. He has a degree in “Professional Writing and Publishing,” as well as Honours in creative writing from Curtin University in Western Australia.
His goal is to produce suspenseful, intriguing crime fiction that propels the reader through engaging landscapes with constant action and unforeseeable surprises. Stephanie Saxon, the protagonist of “The Bodies We Won’t Bury,” is crafted to be foolish and, at times, irritating. Readers might find themselves hating the violent detective as she makes the wrong decisions over and over again, leading to the horrible murders of undeserving innocents. Sometimes, a detective is given more power than they deserve. Saxon is based on an age bracket, so readers might recognise the impulsivity and harsh demeanour of an angry young adult. An angry young adult with a police badge, taser and a secret, unlicensed revolver.
Kidnapping interests Dan more than murder and other crimes, primarily because kidnapping can build more suspense. Are they dead? Are they being held prisoner? In “The Imposter,” thirteen kidnap victims tell the story of their experiences with a masked vigilante. The reader is presented with the perspectives of the captives, most of whom are murdered before they can share their knowledge with anyone other than the reader.
Dan is a disability support worker, and he plans to write a kidnap novel involving a young person with a disability. With his experiences from the field and memories of all the awesome personalities he has worked with, he plans to pump the novel with as much laughter and joy as misery and terror.