Places on the moor where a body can disappear for ever!

I decided that I ought to promote my books more. I write about them here on my blog and when I’m in the process of writing them – but it’s mainly about the actual writing. Then I write about them when they are published – but it’s really just an extended blurb, and I mention them from time to time just in passing. I think I should do more than just mention them!

I’ve written about the first novel I self-published, ‘Farholm’, an imagined island seven miles from the mainland. Two accidental deaths which may not be quite as accidental as they seem, a young woman who went missing after getting off the ferry to the island, and two people who want to find the truth about separate events which almost ruined their lives. I then posted about the second book I published , the only one set in a real location, the Pennine town of Oldham. Despite ‘Flipside’ starting with a ‘love at first sight’ moment, it is a mystery about the brutal murders of several, attacked and butchered at random. Yesterday I wrote ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ – the title gives you a massive clue about what happens before the story even starts, and suggests what might continue within it.

The next novel I published was different again, following the story of a couple who are bereaved by the death of Judah, the husband’s son, while travelling in India. Peter blames his wife, Aislin for encouraging the boy to go, she is almost broken by his accusations on top of her grief for the boy she had known since he was two and more than a step-son to her. They are living in a ruin of a house in Yorkshire – their attempts to renovate stopped as soon as they realised Judah was missing. Aislin is almost involved in a mugging and comes to the aid of the man who was attacked and robbed, reminded of Judah who died away from home and among strangers. She takes him home, knowing that however depressed Peter is, he will want to help this man who is himself, far away from his home, and estranged from his family in Cornwall. Although ‘Loving Judah’ is about bereavement and loss, it is also about betrayal and duplicity, and of course, knowing me I had to have a dangerous chase across the Cornish moors and attempted murder at the end – “Somethin’ might accidentally happen to you, Aislin, and you’d never be found. There are places up on the moor here where a body can disappear for ever!”

Here’s the blurb:

The tragic death of Aislin McManus’s adored step-son Judah is a catastrophe; the fact that his father, Peter, blames Aislin almost breaks her heart. Her attempts to mend the breach between her and her husband are failing and when Aislin meets someone else who is blamed for the death of his best friend she resolves to do everything she can to reconcile him with his family, even though she puts herself in danger by doing so.

… and here are the links if you are intrigued! ….