Heide: Hello, {{ subscriber.first_name | capitalize() or "friend" }}. Today’s the day we can tell you *blows a fanfare on her imaginary trumpet* that our latest book series is available to pre-order on Amazon.
Sealfinger is coming out on 26th June - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sealfinger-Sam-Applewhite-Book-1-ebook/dp/B095LRYSTN/
Doggerland is coming out on 4th July - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doggerland-Sam-Applewhite-Book-2-ebook/dp/B095LT3KZ5/
Sandraker is coming out on 14th July – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandraker-Sam-Applewhite-Book-3-ebook/dp/B095LV3F8T/
Iain: But what are they about?
Heide: They’re all crime novels —
Iain: With our usual silliness in them, obviously.
Heide: Obviously, and they follow Sam Applewhite, who is a security consultant and the daughter of a retired stage magician, dealing with odd goings on in the seaside town of Skegness.
Iain: Weird murders, dodgy antiques dealers, sinister old people and anti-social seals.
Heide: We’ll probably get a review at some point that describes it as “Midsomer Murders on acid.”
Iain: But Skegness is a very real place, isn’t it? It’s not far from where I grew up in Lincolnshire. Although that’s not the reason we picked it.
Heide: No, we wanted to set the stories somewhere which wasn’t a major city, where there were still touches of wilderness, but where almost any character or setting could appear. There’s something quite unique and idiosyncratic about British seaside towns. They’re places where all manner of characters and businesses can be found and where there’s a slight
sense of unreality.
Iain: Although I’ve been to Skegness many, many, many times, we took a research trip there together (before the current pandemic). What was your favourite aspect?
Heide: I loved it. If you look at pictures of Skegness, you see the pier and the funfair, but you don’t get the “feel” of the place, which is clean and prosperous at the same time as being garish and tacky. The surrounding area is unique, as it’s a blend of bleak and lovely coastal wilderness, dotted with encampments of caravans, and some picture-postcard
villages.
