Darkness in the City of Light is Heidi Edmundson’s debut novel. Read more about it here.
She has previously written several short stories. One of these ‘The Road to Belonging’ was chosen to be included in ‘Global Emergency Care Stories’ an anthology of short stories published by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine to reflect the incredible work that emergency care providers perform on a daily basis.
She has just finished ‘Jelly Belly’, a work of narrative non- fiction, which includes a reflection on her love of Emergency Medicine despite the challenges of working in it post COVID combined with all the issues that the NHS is currently facing.
She is currently writing a sequel to Darkness in the City of Light.
MY BOOKS
Darkness in the City of Light
Heidi Edmundson's debut novel
Heartbroken and disillusioned Vulpe Tempest is left looking after her uncle’s private detective agency over the summer. Despite being told not to she takes on the case of a missing girl.
Meanwhile there is someone on the loose killing mermaids.
Part detective story, part ghost story, part love story this is a classic whodunit with a twist. A murder mystery set in magical city where the real and the fantastical bleed effortlessly into each other.
In order to solve the puzzle Vulpe must learn something about the history of the City in the Sea but she must also learn something about herself.