A thoroughly modern noir with a twist.

John Ballard is a PI using a condition. One within a million blessed with a sensitivity. He absorbs the recollections of whatever or whoever he touches.

The cops call him directly into help on the case, a gruesome and inexplicably artistic murder that only someone with his gift may solve.

But absorbing the memories of the mutilated body is going to send John’s life spiralling uncontrollable, force him to mix every line, betray everyone who trusts him.

He doesn’t simply want to find the killer – he needs to find her – as the one thing that’s clear approximately the woman behind the crime, is that she’s a sensitive too…

And the more he discovers about this mysterious female that shares his gift, the greater he’s convinced he’s in love with her, and can do whatever it takes to keep carefully the law enforcement off her scent.

Touch Private is a genre-bending thriller, combining noir and scifi with intimate suspense, channelling Iain Banks and Margaret Atwood by way of Dashiell Hammett and Philip K. Dick.