Jan Edwards reveals...
Secrets about my writing? Tricky. I
have always seen myself as, if you’ll excuse the pun, an open book. Or am I?
Much of my short fiction is crime or
horror based and there is a sort of a secret thread that emerges from time to
time. Sometimes I like to let the bad
guy win or at very least escape more or less intact, and in a few of my short horror stories it's the victim who dies!
We all know that good does not always win even though we might want it to, and allowing evil to triumph in fiction reflects real life, and that's what I like to do in my writing.
The line between light and dark is often more muddy grey
marshland in my fiction. Sherlock Holmes allowed the villain to escape justice on many
occasions, either because he felt that the crime was committed for the best of
reasons or that the consequences of the arrest outweighed the crime itself.
Leaving the enemy to walk is a ruse best used where there
are several offenders to choose from. Kill off or capture one (or more) and
leave the last to run off into the darkness with murder and revenge in their
black hearts... Sorry, getting carried
away.
In my defence, as the writer, I may want to use a particular villain
again, which obviously can’t be done once I’ve killed them off. On the other hand – I do also like destroying them in spectacular
fashion.
Decisions, decisions...
Introducing...
Winter Downs
In January of 1940 a small rural community on the Sussex Downs, already preparing for invasion from across the Channel, finds itself deep in the grip of a snowy landscape, with an ice-cold killer on the loose.
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