Two days into what turned out to be the Madigan family’s final family holiday sixteen-year-old Rose is told by a malicious shop-keeper that the daughter of the family who rented their holiday cottage a year ago disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Against a background of shortly-to-be-divorced parents and soon-to-leave-home brothers, the weather too bad for climbing, Rose takes refuge in investigation and uncovers not only the possibility of sacrifice by a local, deeply secretive pseudo-religious cult centred on the nearby Neolithic stone circle, but a playboy yachtsman whose appetite for illicit drugs and nubile crew members has already brought him to the attention of HM Customs and Excise.
And when Magnus, son of the owner of the local pub, who has been helping her, tries to call a halt, Rose becomes even more determined to solve the mystery, refusing to believe that she might become a victim herself.
Week #46’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge and Joseph Claro’s innocent photograph. Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover. Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book” http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html
What a compelling blurb. Your carefully chosen words evoke great images and pack a lot of information into a few words. I'm sure I'd enjoy reading this one.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great blurb!
ReplyDeleteYou've got it all here! Malice, divorce, bad weather, sacrifice, a cult, a playboy, drugs and sex. This one's got to be a winner, or else sensational bestsellers have been getting it all wrong for years!
ReplyDeleteI'd have to read this one, Sandra.
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Wow. Kay said it all. This book promises to be a page-turner!
ReplyDeleteThank you all - it was interesting having the inspiration to do a back story for Rose Madigan who, as the heroine of my NaNoWriMo novel (fourteen years later)lives very vividly in my head.
ReplyDeleteGreat blurb! And this is where it began for Rose. I'd love to read this and see how her sleuthing days begin. :) This could be a terrific YA novel, too.
ReplyDeleteThis is superb - a real thriller. I wonder if you've already started working on this one.
ReplyDeleteRegrettably jabblog, although I have spent much of the past six months reading detective novels and thrillers I think I am barely capable of writing anything which has horror or violence. Not through squeamishness but I don't have the experience (thank goodness) and am far from confident that I could do it with imagination. Five minutes ago I finished one of Michael Robotham's thrillers- hugely impressive as an example but all it does is show me what I am incapable of.
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