The Pressure's on

Of course, now I've taken the trouble to actually create this blog thingy, I have to keep it updated so that you lot don't get bored, right?

OK, so this works both ways. I need you lot (non-disparaging term) to encourage me to complete the current work in progress, which is tentatively entitled 'Silent Order'. It's an adult crime thriller, starring DCI Brendan Moran of 'The Trespass' fame, but a few years before the events related in 'The Trespass' take place.

The crime scene is a modern monastery, Winfield Abbey, which bears no resemblance at all to a monastery school I once attended in the rolling  Berkshire Downs...(I never saw them roll..). The victim is a monk, whose body is discovered beneath the old chapel, in a hidden vault. Moran, who is recovering from a serious road accident, find the monks of Winfield less than forthcoming. Obstructive actually, and evasive to boot.

Not only that, but Moran's alcoholic brother has muscled in on Moran's recent love interest, Kay Kempster and the Chief Constable has replaced Moran's trusted Sergeant Phelps with an ascetic young man called Eddie Stringer. Stringer is the chief's man through and through, intent not on solving the crime, but in finding enough evidence to get Moran retired on medical grounds.

I'm almost half way, facing the usual challenges of being too far from the beginning to turn back and too far from the end to stop. So, exhortations of encouragement due round about now, manifesting themselves in a vast number of followers hanging on my every word.

Over to you lot :)

BFN.