My Inspiration for Murder at Merewood Hospital
I’ve always wanted to write a mystery where the murders
occur in an isolated location with only a small group of suspects. Murder at
Merewood Hospital is the result.
It’s set in 1919 in a temporary military hospital. The Great
War is over, and only one doctor and one nurse remain at the hospital. The last
five patients must leave so that the hospital can close.
Sister Helen Hopgood is doing all she can to find new homes
for the remaining five injured servicemen, but Dr Samuel Bingham seems
reluctant to let them go.
Merewood Hospital was once a farm, and its owner wants it
back. Joseph Wintringham must sell Merewood Farm if he’s to pay the taxes on
Merewood Manor.
But since the murder of a nurse the previous year, locals
believe Merewood is cursed – and when another unnatural death occurs on
Midsummer’s Eve, it looks like they could be right…
I hope you enjoy reading Murder at Merewood Hospital as much
as I enjoyed writing it!