Dark Ness

by Tabitca Cope

Are you prepared to face what comes from the Loch? Prepared for the unbelievable? Reviewers say they couldn’t put the book down.“Then he saw it; huge, black, dripping pulling the model down and dragging the boat with it. As he yelled, the thing turned to look at him. Hayden swallowed and backed as far away as he could. It was the most evil looking thing he had ever seen. Its eyes were yellow and cold, bigger than dinner plates, and as it opened its mouth he saw rows of serrated teeth. It was no dinosaur, certainly not one he had ever seen in a book; it was something not quite of this world. All this raced through his head as he stood quaking before the creature. He felt something warm on his legs and realised he had wet himself in fear.”A tale of murder, myth, monsters and a bit of magic set in modern day Loch Ness.Several university researchers meet at the Loch, all pursuing their own research. They end up banded together to help the Laird of the area and his friends fight a real enemy, but who are these men who look so alike, why do they want the laird? and is there a monster in the Loch?. The body count is rising,is the monster responsible ? In the end it all depends on a few people to save the world from an old enemy.After the success of this book the second volume Dark Wear is now availableDark Ness is available in paperback from January 2012

271 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2011

About the author

Dark Ness is the first in trilogy of books set in different locations in the UK. I wrote the book when I had to give up work due to ill health.I don't have many years left so am hoping to get the trilogy finished and out and also a non fiction book on cryptozoology my other interest. Why I wrote the book was due to Eskine Childers. In the foreward to his book Riddle of the Sands, he said he was ill and couldn't find a book he liked so wrote his own. I thought what a good idea and have now unleased that idea on the unsuspecting public .
My life story, was a nurse , then an academic, bought up a child with ASD single handed(She is now a scientist) and find myself now house bound but brain still active. I loved writing the book, I just lived it in my head and it seems to have worked as good reviews so far.
Interesting stuff about me.....I once hunted bigfoot and got chased by a bear, hunted Nessie ,did voluntary work in India in my teens , love cats, recently taken up crafting and love technology and science even if I don't always understand it.
I hope you enjoy reading the book and any future books, as much as I enjoyed writing it.It was hard work ,it wasn't easy but to me it represented a big achievement in my state of health and gave me a great deal of pleasure to know some other people rated it!

Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laura, a middle aged, overweight, academic, comes into an unexpected inheritance. As she is enthralled with the legends of Merlin and believes there is a chance he spent time in Scotland around the Loch Ness area, she decides to use the money to fund further research by leaving her job and moving to Loch Ness. Her daughter who is at university backs her project so off she sets.

On arrival at the wee cottage she has rented, she discovers there are a couple of groups of university people doing different studies in the area. In one group is an old friend, John, with whom she soon ends up in cahoots as strange things and strange people are spotted.

Being an outsider in the village, she soon comes to the attention of the local Laird, Henry, who lives in the Big House and has an extensive library which he makes available to her. And then more strange and disturbing events occur and you are drawn into the murder, mystery, myth, or is it magic???

I loved the book and could not put it down. I enjoyed having a main character who is nearer my own age, I enjoyed the story being set in Scotland (obviously) and I just found it to be so easy to read, from paragraph 1 of chapter 2, I was in that village with them and living the story. (chapter 1 was setting the scene from the past!!) It was one of those books you can’t stop reading, but don’t want it to end…….. Now Tabitca, please hurry up with book 2!!!!!