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Crime... in the high Lake District fells...
Joan Arkle, a tireless climate change activist, is
passionate about her beliefs. She has taken her campervan to the Lake
District, to be able to live among the hills she loves. Here is ample scope
for her trade as a wildlife photographer. Here, too, is an opportunity to
make a difference by campaigning against global warming.
But her time in Cumbria proves challenging. Somehow her
activities attract hostility. Increasingly she makes enemies.
And then, one evening on a quiet by-road, her campervan
is firebombed.
Set among the beauty of the mountains and lakes of
England’s most popular National Park, the novel completes Andrew’s
Cumbrian Fells trilogy,
begun with the two earlier novels The Bad
Step and In the Cold of the Night.
Each novel can be read independently of the others, however.
Too Hot for Comfort takes its readers on a journey to solve a
classic crime mystery. Who was responsible for firebombing the campervan?
And what precisely is Joan Arkle’s background? Both DI Chrissy Chambers of the Cumbria
Police and Nick Potterton, once a successful London journalist but now a
struggling local freelance, find themselves tussling with these questions.
But the novel also offers more. Andrew’s writing
thoughtfully probes not just the key subject of climate change but other
pressing social issues, including among others the illegal drugs trade,
revenge porn and social media trolling, and the economic plight of local
newspapers. There is an international element too, in the shape of the young
Catalan nationalist and environmental activist Lluïsa who finds herself in
the Lake District while on the run from the Spanish police.
Too Hot for Comfort will delight both those who love the Lakes and those who enjoy good crime fiction. The novel is published by Gritstone Publishing.
Crime Readers Association blog on Too Hot for Comfort
Article on Too Hot for Comfort in Crime Writers Association members' magazine
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