I’ve been reading through novels that I’ve published some time ago. My most recent novels inadvertently became a series – I wrote ‘Radwinter’ and then a sequel, ‘Magic’. Although both novels were complete, there was an element which hadn’t been properly explored which I did in’ Raddy and Syl’, however that too needed a sequel, so unexpectedly there were four Radwinter novels when I wrote ‘Beyond Hope’. Somehow, two more stories about Thomas Radwinter arrived, ‘Earthquake’, and ‘Saltpans’. I had another idea for a story, based on a true story, a tragedy from over a hundred years ago, and Thomas became involved in discovering what had really happened to two young people who drowned. Now, as I’ve mentioned, what may very well be the final dip into the Radwinter saga is groping its way to a conclusion and I’m looking forward to leaving Thomas and his family to continue their busy lives without me.
My older novels which I have been reading have been ‘Night Vision’, ‘Loving Judah’, and now I’ve just finished reading ‘The Double Act’. Genet and Lance run a hotel in my imaginary seaside town of Easthope and have a close circle of friends they’ve known since childhood. I guess with that premise it’s pretty easy to guess that things go awry, especially when they get new tenants in a bungalow they own in the grounds of the hotel. Things change right from the first chapter, but the subsequent events become darker, dark love indeed. With some of my novels, when I finish writing them the characters continue their lives and adventures in my head, but with ‘Double Act’, apart from a woman whose bookshop appears in other stories, Genet and Lance’s tale continues unwritten. This is the last image, of a Detective Inspector involved in the story, ‘He stood for a while, until roused by the racket of a freight train thundering by, then slowly, like a big weary beast, walked down the road to where he had parked his car.’
This is the Amazon blurb:
Lois Elsden 