AWARD-winning Ilkley author, Alan Reynolds, has had his fifth novel published by Yorkshire publishers Fisher King.

Based in the sleepy Cotswold village of Drayburn, it's another gripping thriller, full of intrigue and finger-nail biting tension and follows the exploits of an itinerant worker who has returned to the English countryside for the past six summers applying his skills for the benefit of local people.

In return for doing odd jobs and maintenance in the medieval church of St James he is given board and lodgings by the vicar and his wife. The villagers are only too keen to make the most of his many talents and treat him as one of their own but there are those from his past that would do him great harm. His very survival depends on him keeping his previous life from being discovered.

But this year, 1986, will be different. Maybe, just maybe it's time to stop running.

It has already achieved two five star reviews in its first week of release.

Alan is starting to attract a large reader-following both in the UK and the US and is hoping for repeat success of his previous novels including Flying with Kites which won bronze at last year's prestigious Wishing Shelf awards