American mum who settled in Doncaster releases gripping horror crime novel

An American author who settled in Doncaster has released a novel - a gripping horror story packed with intrigue and twists and turns.

Veronica Buckland, who has lived in South Yorkshire for almost 20 years, has penned The Untouchables - with the book available via Amazon.

An American ex-pat, now happily British, Veronica is a proud Hoosier, the name for people born and raised in Indiana.

She was raised on a lake named after ghosts and developed an interest in scary stories at an early age.

Writing stories blossomed from that, and so she studied creative writing at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and English Literature at the University of Leeds here in England, where she received her master’s degree.

Between caring for her two children, and proofreading death notices for lots of newspapers all over the UK including the Doncaster Free Press, she chronicles the intricacies of life on her blog, V. L. Buckland.

Working its way backwards through an unspeakable murder, The Untouchables is an exploration of family secrets, revealing how far a mother’s love can go.

Theresa Blake has a horrible feeling - ot that anyone would take her seriously - a greying hermit hidden behind STAY OUT signs in a rotting cottage, she’s a modern Midwestern witch just trying to get by.

She's captive in her isolation, trapped by a family legacy of seers and psychics.

She's ostracized from her neighbourhood, estranged from her family, and helplessly alone inside the madness of her obsessive compulsions.

But perhaps her feeling rings true.

Not five miles away, Godfrey Adams stands in a suburban alleyway staring at a hefty trash bag.

A hand sticks out of it in the September sunlight.

Murdered and dismembered, Chloe Simmons seemed to have had no choice or chance.

But Adams is her best chance at justice; he’s a detective with a difference. He possesses the ability to see into the past: he has the gift of touch.

He sees the inexplicable; his smile is practiced.

But despite his years of experience in law enforcement, this case is something special.

As the investigation deepens, both Adams and Theresa are desperate to uncover the truth.

Who in this town is not who they say they are?

And who will find out first, and stop more mutilation before it happens again?

Revealing what happened to Chloe the day she died will shake Theresa forever.

All it takes is a touch.

The book is available to order now via Amazon.