Watford under Wood
Awarded 2006 First Prize for Fiction by the prestigious David St John Thomas Charitable Trust. Rookie detective Greta Pusey had enough trouble with her complicated love life. And then she was suddenly in at the deep end of murder, a suspiciously nasty accident at the fairground, missing Town Council Officers... Greta was sure conspiracy and corruption were being covered up - something definitely fishy was going on at Watford's Shady Lane cop shop. But her boss said she was suffering from over-imagination, or even an overdose of woman's intuition. It was all beginning to make her brain hurt, all that thinking. No wonder detectives went around frowning all the time! And then as if she didn't have enough trouble, she had to go and fall suddenly in love with a handsome Detective Inspector in Durham. She certainly wasn't ready for that. With more twists and turns than in a labyrinth, Watford under Wood is hugely entertaining - be warned though, you may look at police officers and Councillors in a completely different light! Extract: "...their local DI came to talk to us. And he practically took my mind off everything - the case, my breakfast, my career ambitions - the lot. It wasn't just that he was so handsome, but as well as that there was something special about him that made my toes curl and tingle. Oh, wow, that DI Derek Michaelson! And I should point out that I'm not usually that susceptible. Up until then, all the running in my so-called love life had been done by the men, and I could take it or leave it. I mean, not that I'm a cold fish. I enjoy a bit of a tumble as much as the next woman, but there was no romance in it. So this was a new feeling. And I wasn't sure I liked it all that much." Available from all branches of Waterstones, all good bookshops and libraries and www.amazon.co.uk Published by Pen Press Ltd, RRP £6.99 |
Now in its second edition.