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Trudey Martin was born and brought up in Sutton on Sea and has lived in Lincoln for the last 8 years. She has worked in social care for many years and decided to combine these two elements for her new novel, No Deadly Medicine* which has recently been published and is available on Amazon.
No Deadly Medicine is an action thriller and the protagonist, Verity Spencer, is a recently widowed lecturer who works at Lincoln College on Monks Road, and lives on a fictional road (Steeple Lane) at the top of Steep Hill in the Bailgate area. Following the death of her husband she is having time off work and is on her way to meet her friend for coffee when she picks up a notebook dropped by an elderly gentleman. The notebook has an address inside, it’s on a road half-way up Steep Hill, and Verity decides to drop it off on her way home. When she arrives at the address she finds the old man shot and dying, his house ransacked. He begs her not to give the notebook to the police and she reluctantly agrees. In doing so she puts her life in danger and gets dragged into a dangerous network of intrigue. People who are clearly not afraid to kill are out to get her and she has to stay one step ahead of them throughout the book. Verity is forced to flee her house and heads to London, before returning to Lincoln for the shocking denouement which takes place around the Monks Road area and Lincoln Hospital on Greetwell Road.Not knowing who to trust, whilst coming to terms with the death of her husband, she has to rely on her own resourcefulness and ability to figure out the strange scribblings in the notebook.
Trudey says that there are elements of her within the character of Verity although “Verity is much more resilient and confident than I would be in the situations that she finds herself in.” Trudey says her inspiration for writing the book was “wanting to explore how a normal, everyday person would cope if they got dragged into a dangerous criminal ring. Verity has to figure it all out, from very little information, and manages to keep ahead of her pursuers by sheer hard work and ingenuity. I’m not sure that I would have done so well!”