Friday, 5 July 2019

Promoting Yorkshire Authors - Chris Turnbull




On my special post, Promoting Yorkshire Authors, I am delighted to welcome back, Chris Turnbull.



Chris is here to talk about his latest book, The Planting of the Penny Hedge, so please help yourself to a glass of bubbly and settled on a recliner to learn about a new detective in town!




Blurb
WHITBY 1891
When an unknown man is discovered dead on Whitby beach, it is assumed that he has drowned. However, when the police arrive at the scene it soon becomes clear that there is more to this case than a simple drowning victim.

The chief calls in newly appointed Detective Benjamin Matthews to look into the case. Matthews, originally from Whitby, has been living these past two years in York as a PC, and is less than happy with his transfer back to the harbour town.
With a relocation, a family conflict and now a new case to solve Matthews is well and truly thrown in at the deep end; and the more he delves into the young mans complex life, the darker things get. 



Inspiration
The detective in this book is in fact the detective that appeared in one of my earlier works (D: Whitby's Darkest Secret) and after the publication of Darkest Secrets in 2015 I began to draw my attention to the detective. I wanted to know more about this man (because in Darkest Secrets he is more of a secondary character) and I wanted to explore further into his life. I also loved setting one of my books in Whitby, as I adore the place, and was keen to go back there through my writing.

The Planting of the Penny Hedge story came to me in 2016 and with other projects already started I simply worked on it at small intervals at a time. Finally at the end of 2017 I began working fully on the story, and over the course of a year plotted out and wrote the first draft.

Keep up to date with what I am up to here:
Twitter.com/christurnbull20
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