The murder rate on Hayling Island is soaring - and local author George East is the man responsible!
George is near to completion of the third book in his Inspector Mowgley Murder Mysteries series, and much of the sometimes grisly action takes place on or around the Island. Amongst other gory discoveries, body parts have been washed up at Sandy Point and a body found dangling from Hayling Bridge.
‘I was born on Hayling,’ says George, ‘although they still haven’t put a blue plaque up on the cottage in Whitethorn Road. The Island really is a special place, and lends itself very well to creative writing.'
George and his wife Donella have spent the last thirty years travelling around and living in France. They bought a house overlooking the sea in South-East Hayling ten years ago, and have now moved back to live and work on the Island.
George is the author of fifteen travel, memoir and fiction books, and is already mapping out a novel set in a retirement community on the Island. ‘It’s going to be about the goings-on in the care home and elsewhere on Hayling,’ he says, ‘and there will be murder, mayhem and even the odd steamy sex session amongst the overseventy- year-olds. It will be interesting to see if any Islanders recognise themselves in the pages!’
More information about the Mowgley Murder Mysteries and George’s other books from www.george-east.net