Guest blog. Author Emma Kavanagh talks about the main characters in her novel Falling, all of them have something to hide

Today we welcome Emma Kavanagh to The Crime Warp. My fellow blogger Liz Mistry described Emma's novel Falling as “a welcome alternative to the usual Police Procedural, with the writer using a quirky style to tell the story” particularly the way that the novel delves deeper into the human aspects of murder. Liz really enjoyed the way that the story was told from different viewpoints, so we asked Emma to come on The Crime Warp to talk a bit more about the four main protagonists of the novel – Tom, Celia, Freya and Jim, all of whom have something to hide in this tense psychological thriller…
 
Tom is a detective. Married to a flight attendant, he has a young son, and works hard to keep all the plates spinning, even though deep down he knows that many of them are already cracked. He is a good man, dedicated to his son, and trying to make his marriage work. On the day following the crash that almost killed his wife Cecilia, Tom is called in to investigate the murder of a PCSO. The young woman has been found dead on the banks of a river, her family crushed by her loss. Now Tom has to find her killer, watching this family choked by grief, as his own family crumbles before his eyes.
 
Cecilia is a troubled woman. A flight attendant, mother to a young son, she has a tumultuous past, one that she has never come to terms with. She is overwhelmed, struggling in a marriage that just doesn’t seem to fit. Then the plane she is on crashes into the mountainside above Talgarth in Wales. There are many deaths, of passengers and of crew, people who had full, meaningful lives. But Cecilia, who feels like she has none of those things, is one of the few survivors. Now she has to figure out how to go on when the pressures of all she has experienced threaten to drown her.
 
Freya is a young woman, part way through her PhD. She is bright and determined and, in all honesty, never really liked her father. The airline pilot was arrogant and selfish. But still, his death in an air crash turns her world upside down. As her mother and brother struggle to come to terms with his loss, Freya begins to question who her father really was and what actually happened to the plane. Her family wants her to leave things well enough alone, not to ask questions that no one is sure they want answered. That isn’t Freya’s style though and she sets out to find the truth about the crash and about her family.
 
Jim has retired from the police force, and now spends his days doting on his family - in particular his daughter, police community support officer Libby. He is adjusting to his new life, trying not to feel old and redundant, when he goes to his daughter’s house and discovers blood and his daughter missing. His worst nightmare becomes a reality when his daughter’s body is discovered on the banks of a river. Now he has to hold his family together through the darkest days that they have ever known - a mission that will ultimately threaten his very life.
 

If that’s got you excited, Falling by Emma Kavanagh is published in paperback on 6 November by Arrow, at £6.99.
 
Here’s the link to Liz Mistry’s review on The Crime Warp if you want to find out more:
 
http://thecrimewarp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/book-review-falling-by-emma-kavanagh.html
 
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