Friday, 9 September 2022

Little teashop by the sea

Talking about genre

(which I was last time I was here)

I have unexpectedly discovered that I like books in the Little-teashop-by-the-sea genre

You know the sort of thing

I don't know what you call it

I call it Little teashop by the sea genre


I've been trying to break free from Crime and Murder Mystery and Thriller novels

I've had enough. Too much

I do not want to read another book with a dead body on the first page

There are rarely dead bodies in the Little teashop by the sea

More often there are interesting people

People who are alive. Living people

People living interesting lives

Friendly people

People with friends

Nice people

I want to read about nice people for a change


And, perhaps, I'm thinking now, this is the kind of book I want to write

If only I knew what genre it was

In some ways, Small Finds set out to be this kind of book

Little archaeological dig in the Cotswolds

That kind of book

Before a dead body turned up on the first page and ruined everything

Uninvited

Which I subsequently buried 

The page, that is, not the body


But then, I started thinking

They probably had dead bodies in Roman Britain, at a guess

So maybe, maybe it was not such a stretch

What if?

What if, the dead body on the first page were an echo ...

You know

And they did!

They found these bones between these houses

At this rescue dig they were working in the town at the new supermarket development

The Corn Hill development

In Ancester. Roman Antium

A young female

Inevitably


The hare was off and running and the dog followed

No matter how much I called and whistled, I could not get that dog back

What else could I do?

I ran with the hounds


So, hey!

So much for a (nice, quiet, friendly) Little Dig in the Cotswolds

Still. There are interesting people: nice, friendly people living interesting lives

It's all good, despite the body that's not on the first page

(And not in the teashop)

It's called Small Finds and you can read it here, on the blog 

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