If you thought the relative peace of Aylesbury Vale was an unlikely setting for a series of grisly murders, then think again.
Pitstone writer Dave Sivers’ new novel, The Scars Beneath the Soul, has just been published as a Kindle ebook and aims to put the Vale on the crime fiction map.
“I wanted to do two things with this book,” said Dave, the LBO’s Pitstone and Ivinghoe correspondent.
“I wanted to explore the ongoing damage that violent crime can inflict on victims and those close to them, and I also wanted to set a crime novel in my part of the world.
“Vale residents will, I hope, recognise the area, although I have taken a few liberties for the sake of the story. Although most of the places are real, some locations are fictitious, so local readers shouldn’t find the murders too close to home.”
In the book, Det Insp Lizzie Archer transfers to the Vale from the Met hoping to rebuild her life after being disfigured in the line of duty. But she gets off on the wrong foot with Det Sgt Dan Baines, who has problems of his own. As a brutal killer claims a series of apparently random victims, the pair must put aside their differences and work together if they are to stop the slaughter.
The Scars Beneath the Soul is Dave’s fourth book and his first full-length contemporary crime fiction novel.
