Islander tops Amazon views with first novel

Sat, 03 Jan 2015

Steve Heeney

An Island-based crime writer has reached the top one per cent of views on Amazon over Christmas with his first novel.

That's according to writer Steve Heeney, a full-time IT professional who's been tracking the progress of his Island-based crime thriller online.

'No Mann's Land' is about a spate of suicides linked to people using the 'dark internet' to manipulate others on the Internet - a subject that's drawn attention from UK national media.

Police here helped him to research for the book before he self-published it on the website in December.

Mr Heeney says Manx professionals have been pivotal in putting it together: