Location: Canada
Member Since:
Dec. 19, 2019
Michael Harding
Biography
In 1976, George and I met in a small village called Greenfield Park, Quebec. It was an English enclave in an ocean of French Quebeçois. His family and mine attended the local United Church. My dad was an elder and a substitute minister, while I and George’s mother both sang in the choir.
At our very first meeting, we decided we had two things in common. We both like skiing and beer. Don’t tell George this, but he was the finest skier I have ever met. We spent a lot more time drinking beer in the Rustic Brasserie than we did skiing. But by this time we developed a powerful friendship.
After high school, George went on to CEGEP, university, gained a Master's Degree, and became an English teacher, I got a job and married a French girl.
By the 1980s, he and I lost touch, and we stayed lost for thirty-five years. Only with the internet was it possible for us to reconnect. He now lives in the former East Germany and I on Vancouver Island, Canada. I had already published two novels and was looking for another project when George ‘popped the question’. He asked if I wanted to co-write a book with him. My answer was immediate. Yes!
We embarked on a five-year mission of historical, geographical, societal, and religious research to create book one of a series of medieval mysteries for Gralon Tanet, our investigator. Everything we take for granted today is non-existent in 849AD. We strove to make every aspect of life in a small Breton fishing village, period correct.
Join us for a stroll through the dawn of the middle ages. Thank you for giving Red Clay Murders a look. George and I hope you thoroughly enjoy the read.
At our very first meeting, we decided we had two things in common. We both like skiing and beer. Don’t tell George this, but he was the finest skier I have ever met. We spent a lot more time drinking beer in the Rustic Brasserie than we did skiing. But by this time we developed a powerful friendship.
After high school, George went on to CEGEP, university, gained a Master's Degree, and became an English teacher, I got a job and married a French girl.
By the 1980s, he and I lost touch, and we stayed lost for thirty-five years. Only with the internet was it possible for us to reconnect. He now lives in the former East Germany and I on Vancouver Island, Canada. I had already published two novels and was looking for another project when George ‘popped the question’. He asked if I wanted to co-write a book with him. My answer was immediate. Yes!
We embarked on a five-year mission of historical, geographical, societal, and religious research to create book one of a series of medieval mysteries for Gralon Tanet, our investigator. Everything we take for granted today is non-existent in 849AD. We strove to make every aspect of life in a small Breton fishing village, period correct.
Join us for a stroll through the dawn of the middle ages. Thank you for giving Red Clay Murders a look. George and I hope you thoroughly enjoy the read.
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Books
Red Clay Murders
by Michael Harding & George Argon
Price:
$2.49 USD.
Words: 75,260.
Language:
Commonwealth English.
Published: June 1, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Adventure » Action
A murder mystery set in Medieval Brittany, France in the year 849. We experience the life of Gralon Tanet, investigator. The local bishop tasked him with finding the killer of a notary in Sant Nazer, a nearby fishing village. He soon discovers a local blacksmith died the same day. Can Tanet find out why these two men died before they hang him for plotting two murders of his own?