During my last break I had the pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful natural wonder of Noosa Heads. I stayed there for just over a week with my family and could not get over the beautiful warm climate, days in the sun on the beach, the views from the national park and the abundance of bush turkeys.
It was here, in Noosa, that I started writing a screenplay intended to be the pilot for a mini-series. It is a crime thriller, still without a name, based on the murder of a man on the fictional island of Pimbleton off the Devon coast in England. It is in the vein of the recently aired 'Broadchurch' and a much loved BBC favourite mini-series 'The Shadow Line' and deals with the lives of two police officers entangled in the man's mysterious murder. From there the two uncover a great deal of secrecy and corruption and the issue of the hidden identity of the murderer soon takes a back seat to a much more intense political scandal that involves only the very top of Britain's political figures.
I lent the script to a friend of mine, Isabelle Atton (who appears briefly in 'A Deliberate Accident'), and she gave such a positive response that she asked me desperately to write a second one. I doubt I will, but seeing as though she enjoyed it so much, I thought I might create a small extract for readers to have a look at.
Pimbleton.PDF
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