Darkside

✍ Scribed by Bauer, Belinda

• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace?Jonas finds himself sidelined as the investigation is snatched away from him by an abrasive senior detective. Is his first murder investigation over before it’s begun? But this isn’t the end of it for Jonas, because someone in the village is taunting him, blaming him for the tragedy, and watching every move he makes...

Belinda Bauer first novel Blacklands won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel 2010

Talking about the new book, Darkside, Bauer remarked: 'Darkside is the story of a young policeman who gets hopelessly out of his depth while trying to catch the killer of elderly and vulnerable people in the tiny village where he lives with his chronically ill wife. He is sidelined by the homicide detectives who are called in, and a series of sinister notes accuse him of failing to do his job.

'Darkside was terrible to write. I was frequently reduced to tears while wrestling with what the characters were going through and with all its twists and turns. I ended up moulding the plot out of clay just so that I could get some visual sense of what I was doing. It sounds pretentious but it really helped. When I finished Darkside I hated it but the more I live with it, the more I like it. I'm interested to see what readers think...'