Death will strike but five times before the final curtain …Lyn, Catherine, Sparrow, ‘Big Bill Norton’ and the other locals of Featherston have at least two things in common: first, their locality, and second, their connection with death, the ‘inevitable event’ in everyone’s life. Some of them will make it to the end of the book and others – through natural causes, vengeance or a series of unexplained incidences – will not.Are these ordinary people living ordinary lives, or is there more to it than meets the eye?Demelza’s diverse use of the written word explores the plight of a town impacted by rogue leadership and deception. In this cleverly crafted fiction which draws inspiration from both the Tales of Robin Hood and the poem Who Killed Cock Robin?, Demelza delivers tasty morsels of suspense and intrigue by picking up the small threads of select individuals’ lives before blending them together under the shadow of a far more sinister story.For lovers of life, death … and a little revenge.
Death will strike but five times before the final curtain …Lyn, Catherine, Sparrow, ‘Big Bill Norton’ and the other locals of Featherston have at least two things in common: first, their locality, and second, their connection with death, the ‘inevitable event’ in everyone’s life. Some of them will make it to the end of the book and others – through natural causes, vengeance or a series of unexplained incidences – will not.Are these ordinary people living ordinary lives, or is there more to it than meets the eye?Demelza’s diverse use of the written word explores the plight of a town impacted by rogue leadership and deception. In this cleverly crafted fiction which draws inspiration from both the Tales of Robin Hood and the poem Who Killed Cock Robin?, Demelza delivers tasty morsels of suspense and intrigue by picking up the small threads of select individuals’ lives before blending them together under the shadow of a far more sinister story.For lovers of life, death … and a little revenge.
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