Nothing ever seems to happen

I’ve decided 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 my writing process. I share information when they’re published – but it’s really just an extended blurb, trying to interest potential readers. Then, of course, I mention them here from time to time; however – I’ve begin to realise that I must do more than merely mention them, I must promote them! I wrote them for people to read, so I need to broadcast that they are available!

With this in mind, I blogged about the first novel I self-published, ‘Farholm‘. It’s set on an imagined island just off the mainland. Two deaths may not be as accidental as they seem and a young woman goes missing. Arriving on the island are two people, each on a mission to find the truth about the death on the island of someone dear to them. My next book, ‘Flipside‘, set in a real location, the town of Oldham may start with a ‘love at first sight’ moment, but the story is a murder mystery, a serial killer who randomly attacks women and butchers them. ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov‘ – well, the title gives a massive clue about what’s happened before the story even starts, and what might continue within it. ‘Loving Judah‘ is very different. Following the death of his son, Judah, in India, Peter sets off there. His wife, almost broken by the loss feels abandoned in the wreck of the old house they’re renovating. Then she meets someone who is also lost – devastated and guilt-ridden by the death of his closest friend. In ‘Night Vision‘, when Beulah Cameron climbs a tree in the middle of a forest, you can guess that things have gone awry in her life, particularly her marriage. She is startled when she realises someone else is in the tree above her. However, it’s only near the end of the book she discovers who they are and why they climbed.

My sixth book, The Double Act, is difficult to completely categorise – murder, violence, love-story, betrayal, mystery, yes all of these, a close group of friends who’ve known each other, loved each other, married each other, are intrigued by the new tenants of Genet and Lance’s rented cottage. They seem very respectable – he’s a visiting lecturer in oceanography at the local university, she’s a beautiful young woman who has to use a wheelchair. She is very friendly and keen to make friends, he seems to be the opposite – the friends are truly fascinated by them, Dr and Mrs Herrick. Is it a coincidence that after their arrival things seem to happen in the usually peaceful small seaside town? Someone is attacked, the book shop owner has her store vandalised, a jeweller has her workshop trashed – and confidences among the group of friends are no longer secret. Then two people go missing, their cottage trashed and blood everywhere…

Here is the blurb:

Easthope is a quiet, slightly old-fashioned seaside town; nothing ever seems to happen, and Genet McCauley and her friends lead lives almost unchanged since they left school. Genet, married to mercurial Lance and running their small hotel, sometimes feels trapped and often feels bored, but she loves Lance and in most ways is content. Their friends call them the great double act; Genet without Lance? Lance without Genet? Impossible!
But then the McCauleys take on new tenants in a bungalow they own; is it a coincidence that as the enigmatic Dr Herrick and his disabled wife arrive in the small town, a series of acts of vandalism and arson is committed? At first they are, small, petty events, which seem to centre on the group of friends; however, before long they escalate to violence and attempted murder.
When the Herricks come to Easthope, Genet’s life and that of those closest to her, changes for ever. Don’t think ‘The Double Act’ is a romance, this may be a love story… but the other side of love is dark love.

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