A tale of marriage, murder and a Man. United duvet.
Novel is complete, 80,000 words.
Charlie Geddis wants to get back with his wife Barbara. Standing in the way is his fondness for drink, Barbara’s new boyfriend, a dead body wrapped in the Shroud of Old Trafford and a trans-gender thug on a Zimmer.
Charlie, reporter for small-town newspaper, The Ballymenace Explorer, is a man behaving badly. Barbara’s new man is Malcolm Palmer. He wants to build her a new home and suggests that Charlie and Barbara should divorce. In a drunken haze, Charlie witnesses the shooting of a man, whose body is thrown into a duck pond in Ballymenace Glen. He is convinced that Palmer has something to do with it. Unfortunately, no one else believes his story. Together with Jill, his colleague at The Explorer, he sets out to find the truth about Palmer. They soon discover he’s up to his neck in shady property deals and he’s two-timing Barbara. Worse still, he intends to build a new town, destroying a whole forest and Charlie’s family home in the process.
Charlie has a plan. Simple. Get Palmer. The problem is he needs someone to fill in the details.