I am very pleased to have Sally Spedding on the blog today. She is the author of multiple spooky crime noir novels. Tell us about your work Sally.
In 1997, having moved
from rural Wales to Northampton, because of my late husband’s new job, I used a
ruler to find the nearest coast, where Norfolk is divided from Lincolnshire by
the River Nene. These atmospheric flatlands became the setting for ‘Wringland’
where a new housing development is haunted by a woman hanged in public in that
very place.
Published in 2001 in a
two-book deal with Pan Macmillan, this was the start of a journey where
settings are paramount. Where characters don’t change, they just reveal
themselves, and now with ‘The Devil’s Garden,’ set near Tulle in France,
published by Sharpe Books as part of a seven-book deal, wannabe gendarme,
Delphine Rougier faces a truly dangerous crisis.
About the book
DI
John Lyon Thriller - Book 1
One
false move is all it takes...
France,
April 1986.
John
Lyon, newly retired Detective Inspector from Nottingham, breaks off his holiday
in the eastern Pyrenees when he encounters Karen Furst.
This
attractive, wheelchair-bound woman with a new name and nationality, soon draws
him into her world. Karen is the product of a tragic past, a past which is
slowly but surely catching up with her.
Yet
the woman's story doesn't entirely add up. John suspects that Karen is lying to
him. And how much is he lying to himself about how he feels, what he thinks?
Karen
will soon be targeted - and John with her - by unseen enemies.
Only
La Chasse, a hunt to the death in wild scrubland, will reveal the truth.
Blood
will be shed.
The
Nighthawk is a dark, enthralling novel that grips from start to end.
Recommended for fans of
Gillian Flynn, Bernard Minier and Manda Scott.
PRAISE FOR SALLY
SPEDDING:
‘Sally Spedding has
been credited with being a latter-day Du Maurier.’ Crime Squad
‘Sally Spedding is a
font of creepy stories, the kind of tales which wheedle their way into your
mind days and weeks later.' Western Mail
‘Sally Spedding has
unquestionably got what it takes.’ Crime Time
‘No-one does evil like
Sally Spedding.’ Thorne Moore
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