Close Your Eyes (Joseph O’Loughlin 8)

Travel Guide

Travel and explore the London of Michael Robotham

The city of London is his home and home turf but his work takes him across the UK in many of the books.  No matter where he goes, there is a good yet gritty guide to the city where he is. the author carves out a vivid picture of the setting, atmosphere and showcases the shadows of the city, you might not see otherwise.

There’s not that much of London in this book as most of the book takes place in Clevedon Somerset and Bristol. Clevedon is where the fictional Windy Farm is located where the crime scene is also discovered:

Clevedon – Windy Hill Farm
Fictional farm

Turning off the road, I cross a cattle grate and drive along a rutted track with six-foot-high hedges on either side. I see nothing until I turn the next corner and a whitewashed two-storey farmhouse comes into view, tucked har against the ridge, protected from the worst of the prevailing winds.

The farmhouse (despite it being a crime scene an fictional, it sounds lovel!)

I study the farmhouse, which is seventeenth -century Grade II listed, with mullioned windows and flowerboxes on the sills. it’s set on sixteen acres with an orchard, walled garden, old granary, stables, milking shed and chicken -coop”

Clevedon

Clevedon is one of those sleepy English seaside towns that seem to burst into life for a few months every summer and then hibernate for the rest of the year. Quaint. Historic. Swept clean. The locals cling to their traditions and complain about the rich interlopers who blow in from London or Bristol and buy up the best homes with the best views.