The Corpse with the Iron Will - Author Guest Post

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The Corpse with the Iron Will (The Cait Morgan Mysteries)

by Cathy Ace

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The Corpse with the Iron Will (The Cait Morgan Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
10th in Series
Publisher: Four Tails Publishing Ltd. (June 3, 2021)
Number of Pages: 325

Welsh criminal psychologist and globetrotting sleuth, Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are enjoying some well-deserved peace and quiet at home, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. The sudden death of a neighbor is a significant loss for them both, so Cait’s honored when Gordy Krantz’s “unusual” will requests that she eulogize him at his memorial.

However, delving into the dead man’s background becomes a pressing priority when a puzzling theft, and some surprising discoveries, put our favourite sleuths on high alert. Might someone living in their seemingly tight-knit – and certainly off-beat – rural community have wanted their neighbor dead? And if so, are more people they know at risk?

The tenth Cait Morgan Mystery from Bony Blithe Award-winning author Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Iron Will, forces Cait and Bud to use the skills they’ve honed tackling cases around the world to unmask a killer who’s too close to home for comfort!

Guest Post

I don’t need to tell you that the past year or so has been “unusual”…indeed, I’ve seen the word “unprecedented” in print so often it’s become almost meaningless! But we all have to admit we’ve learned to live our lives in a very different way, and that “normal” is something we’re all thinking about in a fresh light.

That’s what I had in mind when I was plotting THE CORPSE WITH THE IRON WILL: each Cait Morgan Mystery is set in a different country, but this time I decided to set the mystery right on Cait’s own doorstep, because I wanted her to have to work through rethinking what “home and community” mean to her, in much the same way as we’ve all been doing recently.

Like me, Cait Morgan is a Welshwoman who’s migrated to Canada. Also like me, she travels a great deal…which is why a lot of readers enjoy this series – armchair travel is still popular, even though (for some) the prospect of travel in the real world is now becoming more of a realistic possibility. This meant that setting a book on Cait’s home turf (which is pretty much the same as my home turf) posed a particular challenge: how to show the location without too much detail that’s relevant to me, but not relevant to the story!

It’s a fine line to tread, because – when you love a place as much as I love my home – it’s hard to not rattle on and on about all its loveliness. This is particularly the case in a book where the puzzling plot is supposed to be the star, rather than the beautiful surroundings.

I found the editing of this book to be particularly taxing, as I had to delete quite a few scenes that didn’t truly progress the story. That said, I hope readers can see the towering cedars lining the winding roads, hear the call of the loons, and feel the wind whistling down the mountainside through their hair. And I hope they enjoy meeting the folks who live in the Red Water Mountain area of British Columbia, too…they’re a bit of an odd bunch, but neighbors are neighbors, after all!

Thanks for sharing this! I’d love to visit British Columbia one day!

About Cathy Ace

Cathy Ace was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, then migrated to Canada aged 40. Having traveled the world (for business and pleasure) for decades, Cathy put her knowledge of the cultures, history, art, and food she encountered to good use in the Cait Morgan Mysteries – a series of traditional whodunits featuring a globetrotting Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology. These books have been optioned by Free@LastTV (Agatha Raisin).

Ace also writes the #1 Amazon bestselling WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, featuring four female PIs (one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish, one English). They tackle quirky, quintessentially British cases from a Welsh stately home in the rolling countryside of the Wye Valley.

Her standalone tale of psychological suspense, The Wrong Boy, also became an Amazon #1 bestseller, and is due to become a bilingual TV mini series.

Cathy lives on five rural acres in British Columbia, where her ever-supportive husband ensures she’s able to work full-time as an author, and enjoy her other great passion – gardening. She’s been shortlisted for the Bony Blithe Award three times in four years, winning in 2015, has won an IPPY Award, and was shortlisted for an IBA Award and an Arthur Ellis Award.

Author Links

Web: http://www.cathyace.com/
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Twitter: @AceCathy
Instagram: @cathyace1
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3913679.Cathy_Ace

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