According to the Sunday Times crime writer Lesley Thomson's latest novel The Detective's Secret is a "haunting novel about loss and reconciliation". It features a fictional water tower inspired by Thomson staying in a friend's converted tower in Paddington and BWTAS gets a grateful mention in the acknowledgements for supplying Lesley with a reading list.
Crime novels featuring water towers in the plot are few and far between but their dark and dank interiors and impenetrable and imperturbable strength and usefulness as a vantage point and for containing secrets is deftly exploited here. The results are well worth reading.
Lesley Thomson's website provides a gallery of images from the locations in which she has set her story.
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