Scenic Jog Along The Wild Coast

Those of you who follow me on TikTok will have already enjoyed (and perhaps laughed at) my "Running is Writing" clips. It's true though, at least for me. Running gets the blood pumping and the ideas flowing, and when you live in Brittany and set most of your stories in this mystical land, there's no better way to really soak up the atmosphere like ink before bringing it to life again on the page.

Here are a few shots I took while jogging along the Wild Coast (la Côte Sauvage) in southern Brittany. An excuse to catch my breath perhaps. Mud, granite, sand, and sea... Moss, lichen, gorse, and reed... and a rainbow as a reward at the end. There are benches along the coast here that are perfect for reading a good book, or for doing push-ups without getting your hands muddy. The bench in the shot I turned into a meme even faces a rock formation called The Devil's Table. You can't get better than that! 

Three of my stories I've set along the coast of Brittany are:

The Curse of the Emerald Eye (The Black Beacon Book of Pirates)

Holiday Home (The Black Beacon Book of Horror)

The Painting and the Password (The Third Black Beacon Book of Mystery)

The Impossible Theft (The Second Black Book of Mystery)

Of course, my forthcoming novel is set just a little further inland, in the marshland I call my home. Don't forget to grab a copy once it's out on the 30th of January. Dead on the Dolmen is the first novel featuring Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable, and if you love atmospheric settings, quirky characters, and a clever puzzle even half as much as I do, this distinctly Breton mystery is going to have you enthralled.   

Dead on the Dolmen - A Mysterious Landscape

The setting for Dead on the Dolmen, the first Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable novel, is based on a real part of Brittany. Here's a guided tour of the track between the villages of Greno and Kergaillot on a cold winter's morning with yours truly.

Dead on the Dolmen Kindle Pre-Order Deal

The Kindle pre-order deal for DEAD ON THE DOLMEN is now open. Just $1.99 instead of $3.99, automatically delivered to your device on the 30th of January.

In this, the first novel-length mystery featuring Oscar Tremont, you'll pit your wits against a masked killer tormenting a village on the Guérande Peninsula in Brittany. There will be moments, however, when you, just like several of the inhabitants, will start to believe that it really is the Ankou (the Grim Reaper of Breton lore) come to claim souls. Can you crack the case before our intrepid investigator of the strange and inexplicable reveals all?

PLACE YOUR KINDLE PRE-ORDER TODAY

The End of a Chapter: My Last Day at La Porte Saint-Michel

I said goodbye to La Porte Saint-Michel (Saint Michael's Gatehouse) in Guérande last Friday the 31st of October; Halloween 2025. After working as a tour guide in the salt marshes over the last five years and with guided tours of the gatehouse to one of Brittany's few remaining mediaeval towns with unbroken ramparts added to my repertoire this year, I'm now ready to start a new chapter in my professional life. Over the winter, I'll be both looking for new contracts (and contacts) and working on finding my own clients, particularly English-speaking visitors.

One of the first major steps for any freelance guide, of course, is setting up an attractive website. It will take time to build it, but the foundations have already been laid: https://brittanytourguide.com

Friday morning, I took a number of short videos of my last steps along the walls of Guérande and I'm posting them on my TikTok profile over the coming days: https://www.tiktok.com/@camerontrost_author

Here's one of these videos of the chapter that has come to a close.

 

Cover Reveal: Dead on the Dolmen

Time for a mysterious cover reveal! Here it is, the cover designed by yours truly for the very first novel featuring Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable.

DEAD ON THE DOLMEN will have you wondering whether the Ankou really is riding forth across the land of magic and mystery that is Brittany, or is it an elaborate and macabre joke to get the village of Greno in the mood for Halloween? Once Oscar Tremont is called onto the scene, it soon becomes clear to him that neither explanation is plausible. Why is someone dressing up as the Reaper himself and terrorising David Trevelyan, the reclusive author of Breton folklore and cultural history? Can you discover the identity of the Ankou before the investigator of the strange and inexplicable reveals it?

DEAD ON THE DOLMEN will be published on the 30th of January, 2026, but there will be plenty more sneak peeks and spine-chilling glimpses before then.