Bloodstones - the new novel by Casimir Greenfield published exclusively on Kindle

Dec. 23, 2011 - PRLog -- Summer has arrived in a Cotswold village at the edge of the Severn Plain. Madge Lowell is an unassuming person in her early fifties preparing for an exhibition of her watercolours in the local church during the village fete. Her newest work is a departure in style, an exorcism of her creative past. Her acute sense of detail coupled with her changing physical state alters her perception of her ordered life and the lives of those around her.

Her husband, Gerald, is involved with a young girl. Madge suspects nothing at first, but is uneasy about the changes within her and in the changes she notices in Gerald. During the fete, the girl is brutally raped and murdered in the woods above the village. When the body is discovered, the village is in turmoil. Gerald goes missing and is involved in a fatal motorway accident.

It becomes clear during the ensuing murder enquiry that Gerald and many others had liaisons with the girl, and the whole truth of his affair becomes apparent to Madge. In the days following the murder, Madge re-evaluates her safe and secure existence and discovers a person within herself of whom she had lost sight.


Casimir Greenfield grew up in the Severn plains at the foot of the Cotswolds. He is currently working on the screenplay of a trilogy of young adult fantasy films.