Climbing a tree in Camel Wood

I’ve 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 process. I share information about them when they are published – but it’s really just an extended blurb, trying to interest potential readers. Then, of course, I mention them from time to time just in passing, however – I really do think I should do more than just mention them, I should promote them! I wrote them for people to read, so I need to broadcast that they are available!

In my previous posts, I started with the first novel I self-published, ‘Farholm’, an imagined island seven miles from the mainland. Two accidental deaths may not be quite as accidental as they seem and a young woman goes missing after disembarking from the Farholm ferry. Also landing on the island are two people on a mission to find the truth about events in which people died. My second published book, ‘Flipside’ set in a real location, the town of Oldham starts with a ‘love at first sight’ moment but it’s a murder mystery about women attacked and butchered at random. ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’, my next book – well, the title gives a massive clue about what happened before the story even starts, and suggests what might continue within it. ‘Loving Judah’ is very different. Following the death of his son, Judah, in India, Peter sets off there, leaving his wife in the old house they’re renovating. She is almost broken by him blaming her for encouraging Judah to travel, on top of her own grief. Then she meets a man who is also lost – devastated by the death of his best friend, and his guilt for events surrounding the death.

So, novel #5, ‘Night Vision’, starts with forty-something Beulah climbing a tree in Camel Wood, a fictional forest which makes repeated appearances in my books. She and her husband have just that day moved from Manchester to Strand to have a new start after the problems in their relationship. His extreme and unfounded jealousy has nearly broken their marriage and they hope a new start in a different part of the country might help them get over it. However, you can guess from her climbing the tree in the middle of the forest that things have gone awry. She is startled by the fact that there is someone else above her, who also climbed the tree, but it is only very near the end of the book she discovers who they are and why they climbed.

Here’s the blurb:

Beulah and Neil Cameron return to his childhood home of Easthope to try and repair their damaged marriage. Neil is profoundly and wrongly jealous of Beulah’s best friend; however Beulah discovers that Neil has his own secrets which may damage their marriage more permanently. The disappearance of his fifteen year-old brother Patrick thirty years ago, casts a long shadow, and despite Neil’s opposition, Beulah is determined to find out what happened to him.

… and here are links if you want to buy the book: