Publication: March 26,2026
Hardback, £19.99; paperback, £11.99; e-book, £4.99.
ISBN: 978-1-0685273-1-9

Melissa Jones's eagerly-awaited new novel Gone for A Soldier will be published on March 26, 2026 by the newly-launched Authors' Collective.

A subtle psychological mystery

Maddie used to be a writer. Maddie used to be married, too. Now she is an English teacher at a smart sixth-form college, the mother of Pip, a troubled fourteen-year-old boy, and – by her own admission – the killer of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Benedict Fordham. Except the police can’t find any trace of a body, the army doesn’t have a record of ‘Robert Benedict Fordham’, and Maddie thinks he’s lied about everything he’s ever told her. 

In a terrifying descent into darkness and death Gone for a Soldier examines truth in a postmodern world, explores the very extremes of deception, and dives deep into the vulnerability of handing over trust to someone you don’t – can’t – really know.

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