...makes a very welcome return to my blog this week. Hi Jo, and thanks for making time to be here. So, you have your character, Martin, with you and you're both all settled with tea and fruit cake - absolutely scrumptious, thank you. The page is yours...
JF Can you tell me your role in this story?
M I’m the house
tutor. It’s my responsibility to look after the students on floors 10 and 11 of
The Tower. Many of them are away from home for the first time. It affects
people differently.
JF In what way?
M Some get a bit
wild. A few struggle with depression. Obviously drink is a big problem for
some. And too many parties, not enough studying. The phone causes a few issues
too.
JF Can you expand
on that? The bit about the phone, I mean.
M There’s one
phone between 46 students. They can go down to the courtyard if they don’t want
to wait, but it’s pretty cold down there at the moment. Some of the students
find it a bit isolating. They can’t call their families when they need to.
JF How well did you
know the young man that died - Rick?
M As well as I
knew most of the students. He was a friendly, approachable young man. Very
popular with many of the girls and boys in the house. I gather many of the
girls found him attractive. For my own part, he seemed very charming. It’s very
sad that he died. The police are suggesting there were drugs involved, but he
didn’t seem the type.
Between you and
me, I asked Becky, one of my favourite students in the house (and yes, I know I
shouldn’t have favourites, but I can’t help it sometimes)… Where was I? Oh yes,
I asked Becky to prepare Rick’s room for his parents to collect his belongings. I’m hoping she’ll find something to exonerate him from having taken his own
life, or for it to have been an accident. But I suppose the alternative isn’t
ideal either.
JF What do you
think happened?
M I would very
much like it to have been an accident, but I’m terribly afraid they’ll find it
was foul play. I have no idea why anyone would want to kill such a pleasant
young man, but I do think he must have been murdered.
JF Well, thank you
for such a candid interview, Martin. I hope everything works out for the best…
about the book… Manchester, 1989
A student,
Rick, is found dead in halls of residence. His friends get caught up in the aftermath: Dan, who was
in love with Rick; and Becky, who is in love with Dan. Their fraught emotions lead them
into dark places – particularly a connection to a mysterious Kabbalistic sect. Will Becky discover who killed Rick in time to save her best friend?
about the author… Jo Fenton grew up in
Hertfordshire. She devoured books from
an early age and, at eleven, discovered Agatha Christie and Georgette
Heyer. She now has an eclectic and much
loved book collection cluttering her home office. Jo combines an exciting career in Clinical Research with an
equally exciting but very different career as a writer of psychological
thrillers. When not working, she runs
(very slowly), and chats to lots of people.
She lives in Manchester with her family and is an active and
enthusiastic member of two writing groups and two reading groups.
You can get Jo's book from Amazon
Interesting chat with her character. Great premise Angela.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Allan. Interviews with characters always seem to go down well. Thanks for visiting and have a great day.
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