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The Stranger From Home

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Author Frederic Lindsay
Rights World English
Pages 327
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Escaping to America from the turmoil of her life back in Edinburgh, DI Jim Meldrum’s daughter, Betty, is swept off her feet by a handsome man from back home. A whirlwind romance quickly culminates in marriage. But what are the secrets he is hiding? Handsome and rich, but still a mystery, has Betty married a monster?

 

Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, Jim Meldrum is feeling the strain of working on a high profile case. A businessman’s wife is missing and, Jim suspects, has become a victim of foul-play. As Meldrum investigates the businessman’s past, he uncovers facts that seem to connect this case to a number of unsolved rapes…

 

 

What The Critics Said

'A skilful portrayal of the dark side of human nature'

Scots Magazine

โ€œMeldrum is an appealing figure in classic cop guise: silent, strong, good on hunches. Lindsayโ€™s prose keeps the tension tightโ€

Scottish Sunday Herald

โ€˜If you enjoy getting to the bottom of a good mystery then you will get double your moneyโ€™s worth with this book...You will almost certainly be caught up in the pace of the novel, and the twists and turns of the dual plots.โ€™

TheBookbag.co.uk

โ€˜Pacy, densely plotted novel...Lindsay is...an accomplished and scrupulous plotter...the characters in his novels are never simple.โ€™
โ€˜There are few [crime writers] more intelligent and sympathetic, few who more surely present us with a convincing and disturbing simulacrum of life as we know it, or fear it may be.โ€™
โ€˜In most mystery series the central figure...becomes less interesting with each book...But Meldrum has become more interestingโ€™

The Scotsman

โ€˜Frederic Lindsay is without a doubt one of Scotlandโ€™s most underrated crime fiction writers. Skilful, smart, and refreshingly absent of clichรฉs, his work is on a par with Rankin, Jardine and Mina but, for some reason, major success has eluded him. Perhaps The Stranger from Home will provide the break-through he deserves.โ€™

Allan Laing

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