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That's all folks . . . .by Linda Watson-Brown - 17:50 on 22 May 2009
The fourth Grace Monroe book, Broken Hearts, published by Avon has now been published. Brodie McLennan’s adventures which snaked through Dark Angels, Blood Lines and The Watcher come to an end with this final tale, and the feisty (word of choice from reviewers and publishers alike) Edinburgh lawyer is no more – certainly in a literary sense; whether she gets out of her latest escapade isn’t for me to reveal here. I did have a moment in Florida a few months ago where I was pretty sure that I saw Brodie and Glasgow Joe as they would have been had they moved to Orlando and lived on turkey wings and all-you-care-to-enjoy platters for a decade, but passed on the opportunity of photographing and posting the image for some privacy law that no doubt exists somewhere to prevent such fun . . . but there’s something about the image of a thirty stone guy in a kilt parading around Sea World that will forever stay dear in my heart.
In Broken Hearts, a corpse is found with its heart removed and the media are quick to resurrect the name of an infamous murderer – Cupid. The modus operandi matches that of a 20-year-old case in which two children were found guilty of murder. Having served their time, the killers were released into new identities and the crime put to rest. Until now. Are the Cupid killings beginning again or is it a copycat at work? The authorities hope the latter – otherwise the evidence points to a cataclysmic error two decades before. Brodie McLennan is drawn into the investigation when she is hired by a doctor who claims he is being framed as the Cupid killer. But by whom? And why? Dangerous secrets from the past mean that nothing is what it seems. Brodie must risk everything to defend a client who may be a victim – or a monster.
Well – that all sounds terribly exciting, doesn’t it? I wonder what’ll happen? As you may have guessed as soon as you started reading, I have indeed just copied it from the back cover, but the publisher seems much better at summarising 90,000 words than me.
So, will I miss Brodie? Er, no – she’s pretend. But . . . I have learned so much from my first (four) forays into fiction that I couldn’t possibly have even begun to imagine when I signed that contract two years ago. I get asked lots of questions that I usually just answer in the ghost writing section, but the relevant ones for fiction will soon have a sidebar of their own on my website www.lindawatsonbrown.co.uk.
That blog is now going to have postings on at the start and end of each week (I much prefer that more general commitment than ‘Mondays and Fridays which puts me into a panic at the very notion of such specificity’), and there will, hopefully, be a bit of a revamp soon.
Bye – and I will, without doubt, see you at the start of the week. Add your comment Please note that whenever you submit something which may be publicly shown on a website you should take care not to make any statements which could be considered defamatory to any person or organisation.
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