Another Story Completed

Yesterday I finished writing my first draft of my latest new novel and new series, Beyond The Pale, A Pink Diamond Mystery. 

 I have yet to start the editing process that will take a few weeks, but I feel really good about this, much more so than the last book I did, The Wizard. 

Beyond the Pale: A Pink Diamond Thriller is a detailed crime thriller narrative centered around the brutal murder of an elderly couple, Howard and Elizabeth Plum, at their orchard near Omak, Washington. The suspected murderer, Tommy Tubervale, a homeless drifter with a troubled past, is on the run, and the story follows the investigations led by the Pink Diamond Detective Agency and local law enforcement as they unravel the complex web behind the murder and related events. 

As I told you in an earlier blog post, Charlotte, Trixie and the new girl, Ginger are partners of a private detective agency called Pink Diamond. They get hired on to a missing person investigation related to a homicide in Omak, Washington. What these women don’t know is there are secrets going back thirty years that they must reveal to learn the truth.  

That’s no small feat in a rural town that don’t like outsiders coming in to cause trouble and stir up old squabbles and memories the towns people just as soon forget. 

The murder becomes related to a long standing feud between two families, and it cuts into a cultural mistrust of locals versus people on the outside who don’t understand their ways. 

As is my writing style I do my best to make sense of themes pertinent to the overall story. I did a back story on Ginger that she later confesses to Trixie of a past that is filled with disillusionment, betrayal, and heartache when her father gives her up to be a sexual object to four men when she was thirteen and escapes one night after poisoning and killing the four men. 

I continue on this line when I introduce Milton Freewater, a Colville Native who has a vision of a “man of authority” killing the suspected murderer’s father thirty years prior. The Native suddenly disappears and I used that as a sounding board for the murdered and missing indigenous people in this state and country. 

I feel confident about this book and hopefully will get positive feedback from my beta readers. I can’t wait to start editing.