Blog Tour- The Adulterer's Wife - 9/5/18
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The Adulterer's Wife
By Leigh Russell
On my blog today I have the pleasure of sharing with you.....
The Adulterer's Wife
I would like to thank Sarah Hardy from Bloodhound and Leigh Russell for inviting me on the blog tour.
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Book Information
Julie is devastated to learn that her husband, Paul, is having an affair. It seems her life can’t get any worse - until she comes home to find his dead body in their bed.
When the police establish he was murdered, Julie is the obvious suspect.
To protect her son from the terrible situation, Julie sends the teenage boy to his grandparents in Edinburgh while she fights to prove her innocence.
With all the evidence pointing to her, the only way she can escape conviction is by discovering the true identity of her husband’s killer.
But who really did murder Paul?
The truth is never straightforward…
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Guest Post
MY STARTING POINT
Many stories are inspired by a question, and my books are no different. All of my stories spin out from a simple question. What would you do if you happened to stumble on a dead body? How would you feel if someone you knew was murdered? What if you discovered your partner was involved in a serious crime? And, perhaps the most intriguing question of all to a crime writer - if you wanted to murder someone, how would you set about it in such a way that you could be confident you would get away with it? That last question particularly interests me, because it’s relevant to just about every work of crime fiction.
In real life, murder victims are most commonly killed by someone they know. Of those murders, most are domestic tragedies, and often take place at home. So when a husband kills his wife, or vice versa, it doesn’t take the police long to establish who is responsible, and effect an arrest, and it is rare for a murderer to escape detection in real life.
The requirements of fiction are very different. In fact, crime fiction just wouldn’t work in line with what happens in real life. The first challenge for a crime writer is to have a killer who commits a murder in such a way that the details of his or her guilt aren’t immediately apparent. That way, the investigation to find out who killed the victim can last for a whole book. After all, there’s not much point in writing a detective novel where the police apprehend the killer within the first chapter.
So in my books while I explore what drives people to kill, in addition, like any other crime writer, I also need to work out a way for a murder to be committed in secret. My killers have to be sufficiently cunning to leave no obvious clues. Although my fictional detectives must be clever enough to be plausible, they still have to take a whole book to track down the killer.
But while my stories, like most crime fiction, differ from many real life murders in taking longer to solve, in other ways they are as similar to real life as I can make them. In particular I try to make my characters as credible as possible, as this helps to build the illusion of reality, aiding what Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously called a ‘willing suspension of disbelief’. This idea is attributed to Coleridge, writing in the early nineteenth century, although actually Shakespeare described it earlier, when he invited his audience to use their imagination. ‘Only suppose,’ he urges them, and ‘Imagine when we talk of horses that you see them.’ Most of the work is going to take place in the audience’s mind, because ‘ ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings.’
To make it easier for readers to suspend their disbelief, I try to write stories where ordinary people are thrown into extraordinary circumstances. The idea that the events in a story I’m reading could be taking place in the house next door, or could happen to the reader him or herself, hopefully makes my stories more convincing and so more effective. That’s not to say that fantasy novels can’t be powerful, but they have their own ways of creating the illusion of an alternative reality and drawing the reader into it. In my crime novels, I try to make the narrative believable, as though it could happen to anyone, and I think that can help to make the story believable, and so more frightening.
The Adulterer’s Wife is my first book where police detectives are not my protagonists in a crime novel set in the UK. The task of driving the narrative is left to the main character who is a normal woman living a reasonably normal life - until something terrible happens to her. Although it hopefully wouldn’t, it is something that could conceivably occur in anyone’s life. So while readers are following the story, they may be able to empathise with the narrator, which may help the story to come to life for them.
Until I wrote a stand alone, my crime novels were written in several narrative voices, mainly from the point of view of my series detective. With The Adulterer’s Wife, I decided to do something different. Everything changed, because the book is written in the first person from the point of view of the victims’ wife. As the story unfolds, the challenges she faces are very different to the problems encountered by my detectives in my other novels.
So, the question that sparks The Adulterer’s Wife is, what would you do if your husband or wife was murdered? Given that a spouse is usually the obvious suspect, in the absence of any evidence to support your case, how would you set about establishing your innocence? That is the challenge facing my protagonist in The Adulterer’s Wife.
Writing a stand alone has been an interesting challenge for me. Whether or not it works is a question readers will have to decide for themselves.
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Author Bio
Leigh Russell, author of the internationally bestselling Geraldine Steel crime series, has sold well over a million books worldwide.
Her novels have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Turkish. Reaching #1 on Kindle, her books have been selected as Best Fiction Book of the Year by the Miami Examiner, voted Best Crime Fiction Book of the Year in Crime Time, a Top Read on Eurocrime and shortlisted for the John Creasey New Blood CWA Dagger Award, long listed for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, and a finalist for the People’s Book Prize.
Leigh studied at the University of Kent, gaining a Masters degree in English. She serves on the board of the Crime Writers Association, chairs the Debut Dagger Judges, and is a Royal Literary Fellow
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Twitter: @LeighRussell
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