I am beyond happy to share that “The Accidental Cop” has won a silver medal in the 2025 Global Book Awards.
It will always remain a very special book for me, no matter how many more I write. I am grateful for all the recognition it has received in the two years since it was published. And I feel blessed that readers have appreciated what is between the lines in Roberts’s story, on an emotional level.
To celebrate the award, I am sharing the excerpts from 5-star reviews:
“It says something for the author’s control of language that as I read the passages describing the cold of November I could feel the cold seeping through the pores of my skin, into the marrow of my bones. I could flinch in the grim hallways, nose closed against the smells that permeated my senses. The background here is physically present, no idle stage prop. And in this setting walk the characters – some deadened by circumstances, some shrewd and manipulating. And some who maintain a grace and beauty of spirit, trapped in darkness but choosing to radiate light…”
“I have read too many thrillers to count and enjoy good writing that allows me to visualize the action. Koguce’s writing is outstanding. And for the first time ever, my vivid imagination brought the story’s events to life through my mental images in black, white, and grey, like an old movie from the 1940s, rather than in the vivid colours of most stories.”
“A raw, dark, and ultimately uplifting tale, this novel deserves every one of its five stars.”
Set in Latvia at the end of the first post-Soviet decade, named by pop culture as the “savage 90s”, “The Accidental Cop” is a blend of noir crime and police procedural with psychological suspense elements.
Literary awards:
– Silver Medal in the 2025 Global Book Awards contest / Psychological Thrillers category;
– Category Winner in the 2025 Independent Author Awards / Social & Political Change category;
– Finalist award in the Readers’ Favorite Book Award contest 2024 / Fiction Crime category;
– Honorable Mention award in the 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards contest / Fiction Novel category;
– Finalist award in the Pacific Book Awards contest 2023 / Best Thriller category.
“The Accidental Cop” is available on Amazon worldwide as an eBook and paperback. It is free to read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
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