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Running Behind Time has just been awarded a bronze medal in the 2021 Readers’ Favorite International Awards. As I’m not able to attend the award ceremony in Miami, they will send the medal by post.

Delighted that ‘Too Many Heroes’ is currently at #9 in Crime Thrillers on Amazon!!

Volume one of the Eldisvik Trilogy is currently at #18 in Suspense in the Amazon charts!!

‘Running Behind Time ‘ just got a great review from the BookLife Prize critic. “A clever time-travel narrative… The book’s central love story is woven into a sci-fi thriller. The prose moves quickly and is well-crafted…The protagonist are multi-dimensional and interesting… and their individual worries and motivations feel natural and solidly developed. Their relationship is […]

Thrilled to see ‘Running Behind Time’ is at #1 in the Amazon charts for Contemporary Literary Fiction

“I read the book in just two sittings. It was one of those reads where you don’t realise how long you have been reading for as time just melts away in the background and you find yourself fully absorbed in the entertaining story.” 4.5 stars. Stacey – Whispering Stories Book Blog https://www.whisperingstories.com/running-behind-time-jan-turk-petrie-book-review Thank you so […]

This morning ‘Towards the Vanishing Point’ is in very good company.

Happy to say I’m busy working on a new novel – provisionally entitled ‘Still Life with a Vengeance’, in which the husband of my protagonist, Eve, is accused of a terrible crime. Is he guilty or is someone trying to make a quick buck out of ruining his life? I hope to have finished the […]