An award-winning North East author is set to take readers to isolated areas of Northumberland and Iceland in her latest novel.
Mari Hannah's Black Fell is the fourth in her Stone and Oliver series, and arrives after a four-year gap. Mari, who has won several awards including the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger in the Library, will see her protagonists investigating a case which begins on the shores of Kielder Reservoir.
In a novel that she has been choreographing since introducing David Stone and Frankie Oliver, Mari aims to add a combination of history and folklore into a police procedural. Speaking to ChronicleLive, Mari said that she started with the location and went from there.