Bake-a-yarn: The Next Door Neighbour

Friday 9 September 2022

I live next door to a writer of Crime fiction and last night she launched her third novel Buried Identity in her Cathy Spragg Series.

It's set in the Midlands of idyllic Ireland and you'd be surprised at the goings on there!

But DI Spragg is always on hand to keep things in order....

The book is available from the author but you may be advised to buy her two previous novels if you want the backstory to the main protagonist.

At 35 euro for all three...it's a steal...

And a poem I wrote about living next door to a writer...

The next door neighbour

You would wonder what goes on in there.

For it’s all hush hush

A bit like NASA I suppose

Like she’s about to launch a rival rocket to Artemis.

But you’ve run out of milk or eggs or whatever…

She’s still in the gear when you knock the door at midday-

The writer’s launch suit- PJs, wireless mouse in hand, specs on head

with that far gone look in her eyes

like she’s just stepped out of a space shuttle,

except that she’s not quite landed

and is suspended up there somewhere

between you and a crime scene-

And there’s a killer on the loose

and the plot is unravelling

and whatever hold she had on it

before you interrupted

is about to slip the cursor.

So for x sake

would you ever buy enough eggs

to see you through the week

and stop delaying the launch….