A Light Deficiency

The Sunnyhurst Woods, Darwen, early February. Luke Adams is on his usual run when he discovers a body - the body of his closest friend, Richard, hanging from a tree on the top path. Everyone assumes another tragic suicide……everyone except Luke.

But maybe they are all right….who truly knows another person, anyway. Maybe Luke’s refusal to accept the obvious truth is a convenient distraction that stops him facing up to his own meaningless existence since the death of his wife.

And just when even he is starting to believe this, Luke meets a sick old lady who sends him on a mission - he must find Richard’s estranged sister, Annabel, in Rome. Here begins a chain of events that will change Luke’s life forever. 

A Light Deficiency is about loss and love, and faith and doubt, set mainly in Darwen and Rome It’s a novel that goes well with a glass of wine - a mystery romance with evocative settings, interesting characters, cooking, drinking and music.