Join us to hear about Roz Watkins’ latest thriller novel, this time set in a Cornish village where local girls are mysteriously dying on their seventeenth birthdays…
Monday 7th September
6:30pm
Above the Bookshop
A BIZARRE SERIES OF DEATHS
In the Cornish village of Peneerie, a tragedy is unfolding. Girls are dying on their seventeenth birthdays and no one can explain why. Some say it’s a curse; others a psychological phenomenon known as suicide contagion. What Kat knows is her daughter Ruby’s birthday is fast approaching.
A CURSE AWOKEN
Villagers talk anxiously of Eliza, a serving girl in the local manor house who took her own life on her seventeenth birthday nearly two hundred years ago. She cursed the girls of the village to never see womanhood.
A MOTHER PREPARED TO DO ANYTHING
Kat is determined that Ruby won’t be the next to die, by any means necessary. As she races to unravel Eliza’s Curse, Kat will have to confront the ghosts of the past and shocking truths about the world she lives in. But how far will she go to protect her daughter? And what will it cost to break the cycle of tragedy before it’s too late?
Published 10th September – copies will be available at the event
Roz Watkins is the author of the DI Meg Dalton crime series and the standalone thriller The Red House. She is also the Royal Literary Fund Fellow for Exeter and Falmouth Universities, based on the Penryn campus. She gives one-to-one sessions, helping students with their writing.
She now lives in lovely Falmouth, a short walk from the sea, but used to live on the edge of the Peak District, where her first four books are set.