Title: Trial by Fire (A Helen West Mystery)
Author: Frances Fyfield
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publication Date: August 5, 2014
Event Organized By: Literati Author Services, Inc.
~ Synopsis ~
A woman’s body is found decomposing in a shallow grave, stab wounds to the neck and blows to the head and shoulders. She is identified as Yvonne, missing wife of local property developer John Blundell. When Antony Sumner, English teacher and Yvonne’s lover, confesses to striking her down with his walking stick, it looks like an open and shut case for Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Too much so thinks Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Sumner denies murder - and where is the knife? And when Helen and Geoffrey dig deeper into the secrets of the sleepy commuter village what they discover is a hidden world of passion, envy and betrayal.
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~ About the Author ~
I grew up in rural Derbyshire, but my adult life has been spent mostly in London, with long intervals in Norfolk and Deal, all inspiring places. I was educated mostly in convent schools; then studied English and went on to qualify as a solicitor, working for what is now the Crown Prosecution Service, thus learning a bit about murder at second hand. Years later, writing became the real vocation, although the law and its ramifications still haunt me and inform many of my novels.
I’m a novelist, short story writer for magazines and radio, sometime Radio 4 contributor, (Front Row, Quote Unquote, Night Waves,) and presenter of Tales from the Stave. When I’m not working (which is as often as possible), I can be found in the nearest junk/charity shop or auction, looking for the kind of paintings which enhance my life. Otherwise, with a bit of luck, I’m relaxing by the sea with a bottle of wine and a friend or two.
TEN
ITEMS ON YOUR WRITING DESK
Postits, always yellow,
with reminders of things for chapter X, covered in shorthand I might not understand
the next day.
Pens, many. One favourite
coloured purple, alongside,
A bottle of blue/ black
ink.
The computer screen, of
course, framed with postits.
A box of mints.
An e- cigarette for
emergencies.
Above the desk, a painting
of children playing on the beach, circa 1910.
A cup of tea, refreshed
every hour until,
It is replaced with a large
glass of wine and
A bowl of potato crisps.
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