Pub Sapere Books 16 February 2024.
Westmorland, England, 1970
Dark and imposing in a bleak landscape, Foulstone Manor stands abandoned on the
edges of the Lake District.
Reclusive Joan Goss inherited Foulstone, but her fragmented memories of her
childhood there still disturb her and she keeps her distance in a cottage on
the outskirts of the land.
Joan was brought up by adoptive parents after her mother died and her father
abandoned her.
And she has spent her adult life haunted by the dark rumours of her past.
When Joan’s goddaughter Amanda comes to stay with her, she is finally forced to
confront the secrets behind Foulstone Manor.
Records show that Joan’s father committed suicide. But what happened to her
mother? And why was Joan never told the truth about her childhood?
As Joan uncovers her mother’s diary, the full truth of her parents’ marriage is
revealed.
Did his traumatic experiences in the First World War force her father into an
early grave? What caused Joan’s mother’s untimely death?
Can Joan come to accept the inheritance that she has always rejected…?
J. C. Briggs taught English for many years in schools in Cheshire, Hong Kong and Lancashire. She now lives in a cottage in Cumbria with her husband who is an artist. The Murder of Patience Brooke, featuring Charles Dickens as a detective is the first in a proposed series in which Dickens and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street investigate some dark deeds. The idea of Dickens as a detective came about when she read Dickens’s articles about the London police in his periodical Household Words. Dickens was fascinated by police investigation and by murder, in particular – there are plenty of murderers in his writing, and Dickens is credited with the creation of the first literary detective in Inspector Bucket who solves the murder of Mr Tulkinghorn in Bleak House.
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