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Author: Alanna Knight
Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749007973
Pages: 288
Rights: World
Pub. Date: 12th October 2009
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Price: £7.99
Format: Paperback
The young Inspector Faro stumbles on a plot involving the stealing of a priceless jewel. His investigation leads him to Kent, and on the trail of his nemesis Macheath. Whilst there, Faro bumps into an old school friend Erland Flett who is working alongside the artist William Morris, in a Bohemian community … not at all Faro’s cup of tea. Erland is about to marry a beautiful but mysterious young lady, Lena Hamilton. Faro recognises her as the famous Madeleine Smith, accused of murdering her lover, but never convicted. Now Faro realises that he must apprehend Macheath and save his friend from certain death at the hands of the ruthless Miss Smith … and time is running out.
'House party murder mysteries are invariably entertaining... Ms Knight weaves in the historical characters of Morris, Rossetti and others with the real life "not proven" murderess Madeleine Smith to tell a fascinating and highly readable tale. We get to know a Faro we have not previously seen, one who's at the start of his career, adding a new dimension to a series that I thought had ended. This is a well-crafted story, with constant new developments in the case that keep the pages turning. In short, this is what I consider to be a real historical whodunit, one that has a firm underpinning of historical verisimilitude while concentrating 100% on delivering a rattling good yarn.'
MyShelf.com
‘And where better to place a Victorian detective than the streets of 19th century Edinburgh, with its elegant society masking the city’s delinquent underbelly.’
Liam Rudden, Edinburgh Evening News
‘The book is peppered with ‘real’ people – in this case, William Morris and his Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, but they are portrayed as living, breathing people rather than historical caricatures...the crimes are complex, but the motivations for them are convincing – real and human – rather than puzzle-plot devices.’
TheBookbag.co.uk
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