Sussex author Helen Fields set to release 11th crime novel

With a background as a criminal barrister, working for both prosecution and the defence, Helen Fields has in depth knowledge of the field. 

She has already written ten crime fiction novels and has been twice long listed for the McIllvanney Scottish Crime Book of the Year.

Helen is also an international number one best-selling author published in 22 countries. 

Her novels draw on her professional experience, from court martials to care proceedings, coroner courts to the crown court.

This September, Helen, from Arundel, is publishing her next book, The Last Girl to Die.

Helen Fields

The story is about 16-year-old Adriana Clark’s American family as they move to the Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland. 

She then goes missing and, faced with hostile locals and indifferent police, her desperate parents turn to private investigator Sadie Levesque.

When Sadie finds Adriana’s body in a cliffside cave, a seaweed crown carefully arranged on her head, she knows she is dealing with something she has never encountered before.

As part of her research, Helen discovered a number of legends about the Isle of Mull, many to do with witches, which she uses in the book.

Part of the story is set in Mull’s Mackinnon’s Cave, one of the deepest sea caves in the Hebrides, where legend tells of a piper who was walking his dog there and came to a sticky end.