Böcker av Delphine Richards

Llanefa's Devil Tree is a hoax thought up by locals trying to boost tourism in the area. During the month of August, it was said that the Devil Tree released evil spirits into the community unless it was visited and paid homage to.Nobody tells the tourists that this is a scam to bring income to the area and it remains Llanefa's Best Kept Secret!Some people have no interest in tourism or hoaxes.Manon, Anna and Natalie are keeping their own secrets.Why does Manon keep the baby hidden from everyone?Anna's secret wish is to break into the film industry. When she is brutally raped, she knows she won't be believed, so her only alternative is a bleak one.Why is Natalie's secret so shameful that she cannot even share it with her best friend?On an August Bank Holiday, DCI Tegwyn Prydderch is hoping for a quiet few days while he is 'on call' in the area. His wishes are shattered when things begin to go wrong and he has to deal with the fallout.Will the Devil Tree myth become reality?

Blessed Are The Cracked.In 'Donald's Cat', Kay Jones becomes trapped in an abandoned explosives store while searching for a missing cat. As the air runs out and she prepares to meet her demons, more recent unpleasant memories add to her trauma.A middle-aged man with Learning Difficulties takes worrying action when he fails to make sense of his surroundings in 'The Llanefa Triangle'. In The Perfect Wife, a vulnerable Filipina woman comes to the UK to marry an older man. His idea of the perfect wife is very different to hers.This interconnected collection of five novellas and two short stories from the casebook of retired local policeman Tegwyn Prydderch, is set in the fictional West Wales farming community of Llanefa. Delphine Richards's dark tone dealing with traumatic issues of life and crime paints a shockingly different picture of life in rural West Wales. About Delphine RichardsAn experienced writer in several formats from magazine articles, short stories, to a weekly newspaper column, Delphine Richards's new work draws on her real life experience as a member of the Welsh Police in rural Wales. In these dark tales, she brings to fictional life a new, uniquely Welsh, policeman character, Tegwyn Prydderch, from whose grisly casebook and early memories these stories are drawn.