Book description
Rod Lorton wants revenge. After his wife's death, he discovers
unsavoury truths about her and her former employer, PR chief Ivor
Newley. Called in to investigate Lorton's new-found enemy, private
detective William Dougal uncovers a weakness to exploit: Newley's rare
collection of coins, coins that would leave Newley susceptible to
blackmail if the collection were to disappear . . . That was the plan.
But the outcome throws up something far more sinister and infinitely
more dangerous than Dougal could have expected. For instead of being met
with a bundle of cash when he arrives to seal the deal, the only payment
Dougal is faced with is a corpse. 'Andrew Taylor is a master
story-teller.' A bestselling crime writer, Andrew Taylor has also
worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and
publisher's reader. He has written many prize-winning crime novels and
thrillers, including the William Dougal crime series, the Lydmouth crime
series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy - which was televised as ITV's
Fallen Angel
- and several standalone historical crime novels. His many awards
include the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2009 for sustained excellence
in crime writing, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America,
and the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, which
he has won twice - most recently for his bestselling Richard & Judy
Book Club novel, The American Boy
, which was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the
Decade. Bleeding Heart Square
won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar. Andrew Taylor is
also the crime fiction reviewer of the Spectator
. He lives with his wife in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of
England and Wales. To find out more, visit Andrew's website, www.
andrew-taylor. co. uk, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.
com/andrewjrtaylor.
