UPDATE: COMPETITION NOW CLOSED! My new novel, The Cleansing Flames, is published on Thursday. It’s the fourth (and final!) instalment in my series featuring Porfiry Petrovich, the investigating magistrate I’ve taken from Dostoevsky’s great novel Crime and Punishment. To celebrate the publication, I’ve decided to give away a copy FIVE SIGNED COPIES of The Cleansing …
Although she’d been dead for 11 hours, her killer’s name was still on her lips. Solution. The real mystery was how Louise Appleby came to be sharing a house with a group of people she hated and who, in turn, hated her. Once, perhaps, they had been friends. But the things that they had in …
Chapter One of my new novel, The Cleansing Flames, is available for you to read for free on the Kobo website here. If you like what you see, feel free to pre-order the physical book here or at your favourite bricks and mortar bookshop.
An easy one this, I think: Although she’d been dead for 11 hours, her killer’s name was still on her lips. Solution here.
1 locked room containing 1 corpse. 1 barred window. Key was on the inside, still in the lock: a silvery blob on the end, the 1 clue. It was a poky little room, a garret from another age, perched atop four twisting, crumbling flights of stairs. Climbing up to it, you had the sense that …