At the weekend, I did a little field trip to check the accuracy of my chosen ‘body dumping’ site in my WIP. I took plenty of pictures to share with you and am already starting to feel a little homesick for these landscapes, even though I haven’t left them yet… Tentative quotes from relevant passages precede each picture.
They’d left the motorway and were climbing higher and higher into the Jura.
The road was a tangle of crazed twists, and Melinda was glad she wasn’t the one driving.
In spring and summer the road would be teeming with motorcyclists who believed they were training for vertical Moto GP…
There was no barrier to protect you from the sheer drop below, only those pathetic red sticks to mark the road in case of snowfall.
They thought this might be the forest path they’d taken the previous day…
‘We’ll have to leave the car and head there on foot…’
They found a ditch between two long bushes, the perfect place to leave their burden.
I love that first picture in particular – what a gorgeous view!
Well, I don’t think my protagonists have time or heart to admire it at that particular moment, but yes, it’s heaven…
Lovely light quality in your photos. I’d like to be there.
Thank you, if only you knew… It was far too sunny and the sun was in the wrong position, so it was a bit hard to take pictures. Lots of ‘shading the lense with the hand’ and creeping about in undergrowth…
If I was murdered and had my body dumped, this is the place I would love to be buried! Beautiful!
Not too shabby, right?
Hard to think about burying the dead on such a lovely day and in such beautiful surroundings but I suppose needs must if you’re a murderer – or a crime writer.
Those are fabulous ‘photos, Marina Sofia! More to the point, I’m really intrigued by the quotes you included with them. I’m very keen to read your novel!
Be careful what you wish for… or beta-reader duties may be assigned to you!
And I would be glad to take them on!
As would I! Looks gorgeous there – I’d be worried a tourist would stumble on the body when it’s that beautiful.
Creepy – this all sounds far too plausible…..
Ooh! The plot thickens… wouldn’t mind being dumped there myself – alive, preferably.
Let’s how you’re never a suspect in a murder case. …
All crime writers have the most dubious search histories on their laptops, I understand…
good alibi. Bad if you’re a crime writer accused of a murder. Now there’s a thought…
Oh… stunning views but those twisty roads & sudden drops immediately evoke vertigo & nausea (remember a road trip down from Gruyere to Montreux felt like we were going to do an Italian Job at anytime) … love the idea of a field trip! determined to squeeze an Italian theme into my WIP to justify a month ‘foraging’ for authenticity 🙂
What a fab way to spend the weekend!! You must keep your fingers crossed no-one thought it was a good site for real! Love the pictures, it’s a beautiful spot.
See, that’s how murderers get caught – by publishing pictures of the burial site on their blogs! You’ll have to dig the body up now and move it… 😉
Oh, darn, and it was such hard work hiding it…
It must have been so much fun! That’s what realist fiction looks like… or is it only fiction???