Fell Creatures

by Barry Durham

In a tarn in a country park in the heart of the Lancashire countryside floats the murdered body of a young man. His death creates plenty of problems for Detective Chief Inspector Alf Stone because, according to the police pathologist, this is not the first time he has appeared on the autopsy slab. The investigation uncovers the age-old ‘were’ tradition of the county where witches were able to transform into hares to escape the law. Urged on by three ancient deities, young witch Mary Conway learns the art of the ‘were’ as part of a plan to bring to an end the resurgence of the illegal ‘sport’ of hare coursing once and for all. But her intervention uncovers a far more sinister camped not far from the park are a group of renegade Romani led by a wolf-witch. They have been forced to flee from the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania and now plan to set up a colony on Wolf Fell in the hills above the village of Chipping.

306 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 20, 2014

About the author

Barry Durham was born in Manchester in 1947. He was educated at North Manchester Grammar School and Salford Technical College where he studied Maths, Physics and Chemistry for a while before getting extremely bored with Applied Mathematics and dropping out.
After marrying his wife Barbara in 1968 the couple moved to the Preston area and Barry became a Junior Reporter on a small local newspaper called The Garstang Courier at the ripe old age of 23. The next 40-odd years saw him work for a number of publications in the Lancashire area. He has been a reporter, feature writer, sub-editor, Editor and Group Editor and more recently an Associate Lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston where he taught Newspaper and Magazine Design to post graduate level until budget cuts seem to have forced his final retirement. This has, however, given him the opportunity to write full time (apart from tending his garden, that is!)
He lives in the pretty village of Chipping in Lancashire with his wife of 40-something years, has two grown-up sons, a grown-up granddaughter and three young grandsons.

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