Brenda and Effie
We are in Whitby on the North East coast. It is a town with a very distinct Gothic atmosphere of foreboding and chintzy doom. Everything smells of cod and chips and the sea gulls are as big as Yorkshire terriers. For a good nine months of the year the town is steeped in thick sea mist… and that’s probably just as well.
Because this town is full of monsters.
It is here that Brenda runs her immaculate Bed and Breakfast and her prim best friend, Effie, has her junk shop next door. Both ladies are wanting a quiet life, their biggest excitements being tea at The Walrus and the Carpenter and dinner at Cod Almighty. But both ladies discover that the monsters of this town are very much their business.
Whitby’s ruined abbey rests on the very site of the gateway to Hell. And Hell is spilling over with desperate ghouls. Brenda and Effie are the chosen guardians of this tricky tourist spot…
Brenda is ageless and mysterious and covered in scars, which she tries to conceal with heavy make up. Ancient and terrible secrets lurk in her past: secrets concerning a famous scientist father and a violent husband. Secrets that Brenda would rather forget.
Despite themselves, Brenda and her friend Effie are continually drawn to investigate spooky and peculiar mysteries…
NEVER THE BRIDE [2006]
SOMETHING BORROWED [2007]
CONJUGAL RITES [2008]
HELL’S BELLES! [2009]
All published by Headline Review
