News / Millie turns to crime
OCTAGENARIAN author Millie Vigor, who wrote a trilogy based of books based on Shetland, launches her new crime novel in Lerwick next weekend.
The 88 year old writer, who only published her first ever novel in 2012, has opted for a departure from her Catherine of Deepdale trilogy with The Winding Stair.
The story is “not one in which daggers are drawn or guns ablaze”, but a psychological thriller about Ginny Harvey – a 29 year old single woman who is harassed by someone who leaves red roses on her doorstep with no wrapping, greetings card or florist’s label.
They are followed by phone calls were no one speaks and Ginny hears nothing but the sound of a soft breath. Reduced to a state of nervousness, driven to desperation and seeking to escape, she locks up her house and – telling no one where she is going – runs away.
Ginny thinks she is safe in the isolated hotel she has chosen as her hideaway, but on the second day a rose is delivered to her there. Panic-stricken, she packs up and leaves. Home again, she tries to regain her normal life with her friends – only to find that some of them are not all they seem to be.
The Winding Stair, published in hardback by Robert Hale Ltd., is released at the end of this month.
Millie will be in Shetland to launch the book at the Shetland Library on Friday 30 October starting at 7.30pm, and is due to sign copies at the Shetland Times Bookshop between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday 31 October.
Even though she his heading towards becoming a nonagenarian, Millie has no plans to give up the writing game either. The typescript of another crime fiction novel, Death for Dessert, has been submitted to the publisher.
She has already begun a sequel and says she has no plans to stop writing, with ideas for at least two more novels in the queue: “I’m a writer,” she says. “So I write. What else am I going to do?”
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