LOCAL author Richard Nicholson has had his first crime novel made available on the internet.
The Poisoned Well is set in a fictional village in the North York Moors National Park and is being sold as a downloadable ebook on the fiction4all.com website.
Mr Nicholson was born in Scotland but has lived most of his life on Teesside, working in teaching and the National Health Service. He is currently involved with voluntary work in prisons.
A member of Inkerman Writers, a Darlington- based writing group, he writes novels, short stories and poems.
The Poisoned Well is a story of secrets and murder and features Mike Carter, an outcast who arrives in the fictional village of Westfield.
The story deals with events behind the facade of an outwardly respectable school and deals with themes including bullying and tradition.
The book can be downloaded from the fiction4all.com website for £5.99.
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