Trees

Hazel is going to die.

But when? After the steroid treatments that make her into a slip-slopping bag of water? Or after discovering that her biological father is the millionaire Gustaf Eriksson, a man obsessed with the reforesting of England? Or will it be when her mother gives up her café and becomes involved with The Tree Prospectus?

Gustaf Eriksson made his reforesting fortune as a pop-music promoter; now in his tree-planting retirement, he writes and occasionally performs haiku with one of his old bands. Or could this be a 17-syllable red herring?

Will Hazel die after she leaves her sedentary, game-playing boyfriend and moves in with her mother, who has also recently separated from her accountant husband, who has even more recently got himself killed driving his car into a tree, a Scots Pine? Is the Scots Pine innocent? How about Alder and Yew? Are they even on trial here? How will this forest of questions turn out? Find out in the woody thriller, Trees, that its bark is worse than its bite.