The Nitty Gritty

I've spent the past week or so scrounging for my next project. It started, as you might expect, with a gut feeling: I wanted to work on something longer than a poem and grittier than the stories I've published of late. Sometimes I discover what a project is by eliminating what it isn't.

For a while now I've wanted to write a follow-up to my Chris Harvey P.I. story, "Forgive Me Not". The dilemma was how to bring more out of Chris's character. The simple answer is to add trauma to his life, but I wanted to do it in a way that wasn't too out-of-the-blue. Where would I need to go in terms of subject matter to do this?

I think I've hit on the solution, so I'm off to draft it. My target market is Crime Scene Scotland.