Perilaus
In this tightly crafted murder mystery, Sam Carpenter gets roaring drunk and awakens in a mystery all of his own.
Depressed after his girlfriend leaves him, Carpenter runs up against writer’s block. To ease his way into writing the murder scene of his favorite character, he drinks too much and passes out. But when the author awakens, he realizes he’s entered his own novel and finds himself trapped inside the story he still hasn’t finished.
Perhaps if Carpenter could solve the mystery of his book, The Bronze Bull, his real life would fall back into place, and maybe he can even write himself out of his dilemma. But then he meets the woman in his book.
This novel inside a novel is British author Mark P. Henderson’s interesting premise. His setting for Perilaus, the bronze bull of Sicilian history, is Edinburgh, Scotland, a city known for its charming byways and poets. Although Henderson is completing his second novel, the hero of his book is working on his fifth.
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Author Bio
An accomplished writer with numerous publishing credits, Mark P. Henderson attended Edinburgh Medical School and currently runs a one-man business, editing medical and scientific papers and occasionally fiction manuscripts. For several years he edited an online medical/scientific journal, a task he recently relinquished to allow himself more time for writing and storytelling. He resides in the Peak District of Derbyshire, about twenty miles from Manchester, England. He enjoys traveling the Peak District countryside collecting and telling local folktales. Often, when asked his age, he replies, “I’m ancient. Carbon-14 dating would yield surprising results.”
Mark took up writing fiction pieces around the turn of the millennium (the most recent one). A collection of short stories “Rope Trick: Thirteen Strange Tales” was published by Ash Tree Press, British Columbia, in 2008; one story in that collection was a reworking of a Peak District folktale. His first full-length novel “Perilaus” was published in 2009. In addition, his fairy tale spoof “Fenella and the Magic Mirror” was e-published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing early in 2010. Mark’s historical analysis of one Peak District legend “Murders in the Winnats Pass” was released by Amberley Publishing in August 2010, and his collection of traditional stories “Folktales of The Peak District” was released by the same publisher in 2011.
