Shade of Violet

Shade of Violet Synopsis

Violet Bellamy is surprised to find herself a ghost because, as a rational person, she doesn't believe in them. After a life of timid conformity, she now wants influence. She also wants to complicate the lives of people with empty charm and unshakeable self-belief, like her local MP and rising star minister, Maximus Biggs-Dickson. And care manager Verena Crookham, a ruthless seductress who will despatch her sweet-natured stepson to keep their big house for herself.A Back to Great Britannia campaign has been thrust upon the British, to the alarm of those on the other side of the Channel. There, in Belgium specifically, a beautiful journalist is writing an article: Integrity and Power - Impossible Bedfellows? She has Minister Biggs-Dickson in her sights as an interesting subject for research.Events align and it will take the interference of someone with nothing to lose to bring them all to a head.This fast-paced quirky mystery takes a wry swipe at characters with dangerous charisma.