Heidi Field

So, November 19th is publication day for The Other Mother, book two in my Peasedale Woods Killers series, and I am SO excited!

I read and listened to a lot of authors talk about how difficult book two is, after the high of publishing a debut novel, having to get to grips with penning another eighty odd thousand words.

Well, lovely reader, I had a BALL. I already knew what The Other Mother was going to be about, how the story was going to play out, and where my protagonist, Suzannah, was headed…...

What if you didn’t know where your teenage son was last night...

What if his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods…

What if there were twelve other bodies dug up….

What if your son WASN’T a victim…

How well do you really know your loved ones, the people you live with every day, the family you trust? Scott and Blair thought they knew their son, but they were wrong.

Becca’s review of The Other Boy sums up the feeling of my book beautifully –

Holy moly. Where to even start. I'm so torn over...

I recently received some feedback for the next book in the Peasedale Woods Killers series, book three, The Other Killer, where the beta reader said the overriding theme in the series is that mothers love their sons.

She is, absolutely, right.

I am a mother of two boys, and I have also been involved in the raising of three stepchildren, two of which are also boys. I wrote the first book in this series, The Other Boy, in response to a documentary I watched about Dean Corll, the Candyman serial...