Blood Spots

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Summer 1989</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Their post-show party stretched into the early hours. As the flames of their beach fire danced the young cast and crew of a brilliant production of Shakespeare's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Midsummer Night's Dream </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>all hope they'll be propelled to fame and theatrical fortune. But jealousy and betrayal simmer behind their smiles ...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Summer 2019</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Former police officer Steph Grant is a reluctant volunteer. Stage-managing the new production of Brecht's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mother Courage </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>within the ruins of Covehithe Church in Suffolk is not her idea of fun not when the director is the county's resident drama queen Beverly Elkin. But there is the excitement of the return of Hollywood and West End star Jessica Marlowe to her hometown to consider thirty years after she made her name at the same venue.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Old jealousies never die</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The production does not run smoothly. The show's star and director can't agree on anything. Jessica's return stirs old memories too sharpened when a body hidden for thirty years is exposed by a cliff fall. And Steph's life is also turned upside down. Her partner DCI Philip Hale is acting oddly. He's distant irritable and appears to be hiding something. Can Steph ensure the show goes on - both on stage and at home?</span></p><p></p>