The suspenseful book trailer for Cold Calls by Charles Benoit poses the question, what would you do if you got a phone call from someone who knew your darkest secret?
You can watch the book trailer for Cold Calls, exclusively debuting on Hypable, and then jump below to find out more about this exciting read.
Cold Calls by Charles Benoit will be released on April 1. The official synopsis reads:
Three high school students — Eric, Shelly, and Fatima — have one thing in common: “I know your secret.”
Each one is blackmailed into bullying specifically targeted schoolmates by a mysterious caller who whispers from their cell phones and holds carefully guarded secrets over their heads. But how could anyone have obtained that photo, read those hidden pages, uncovered this buried past? Thrown together, the three teens join forces to find the stranger who threatens them—before time runs out and their shattering secrets are revealed…
This suspenseful, pitch-perfect mystery-thriller raises timely questions about privacy, bullying, and culpability.
You can add Cold Calls by Charles Benoit to your Goodreads, or pre-order it on Amazon. You can also visit the Cold Calls website to learn more.
About the author
A former high school history teacher in Rochester, NY, Charles has also taught in Kuwait and Trinidad & Tobago. His debut novel, Relative Danger, was nominated for both an Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) and a Barry Award (Mystery Scene Magazine), the Independent Publishers Association named it Mystery/Suspense Novel of the Year, and it received a Glyph Award for Best Fiction (Mystery) from the Arizona Book Publishers Association.
Publishers Weekly called his second book, Out of Order, “a spicy quest tale in an India at once modern and ancient,” while The Denver Post noted, “it’s the kind of book Alfred Hitchcock would have filmed.”
His third adult mystery, Noble Lies, is a post-Tsunami missing person adventure that earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which said, “Benoit is at the top of his game…a rough and rollicking story of adventure and romance.” Noble Lies was also a short-list finalist for the Book of the Year Award (Mystery Division) from ForeWord Magazine.
Charles works as a Senior Copywriter and Producer for Dixon Schwabl, a marketing, advertising and public relations firm, and frequently teaches creative writing workshops around the country. He and his wife, Rose, a high school English teacher, live in Rochester, NY.
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