Scar Tissue

by Judith Cutler

Living in rural Kent, Caffy Tyler believes she has well and truly left her old life behind. However her contentment is short-lived, for she sees a dead body through the window of a house she is painting, and then runs into her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Forced to assume a new identity she finds life becomes more bizarre - the body disappears, the police are seriously unhelpful, and she keeps seeing strangers on the marsh in the middle of the night. The man she once loved is now a policeman, but seems unable (or unwilling?) to help her...

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Judith Cutler was born and bred in the Midlands, and revels in using her birthplace, with its rich cultural life, as a background for her novels. After a long stint as an English lecturer at a run-down college of further education, Judith, a prize-winning short-story writer, has taught Creative Writing at Birmingham University, has run occasional writing course elsewhere (from a maximum security prison to an idyltic Greek island) and ministered to needy colleagues in her role as Secretary of the Crime Writers' Association.

Reviews

[Jacky · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing can be a bit pedestrian, but I love Judith Cutler's characters. They leap off the page, almost demanding to be your best friend, very rounded, believable people, lots of them have been through the mill and lived to tell a good tale. This one features Caffy Tyler.