St. Just #1
Midnight Ink
July 2008
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Featuring: DCI Arthur St. Just
312 pages ISBN: 0738712485 EAN: 9780738712482 Kindle: B001JEPVSM Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From deep in the heart of
his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian
Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four
spoiled
children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this
device, the
portly patriarch decides to weave a malicious twist into his
well-worn
plot. Gathering them all together for a family dinner, he
announces his
latest blow — a secret elopement with the beautiful
Violet... who was
once suspected of murdering her husband.
Within
hours, eldest
son and appointed heir Ruthven is found cleaved to death by
a medieval
mace. Since Ruthven is generally hated, no one seems too
surprised or
upset — least of all his cold-blooded wife Lillian. When
Detective
Chief Inspector St. Just is brought in to investigate, he
meets with a
deadly calm that goes beyond the usual English reserve. And
soon Sir
Adrian himself is found slumped over his writing desk — an
ornate knife
thrust into his heart. Trapped amid leering gargoyles and
concrete
walls, every member of the family is a likely suspect. Using
a little
Cornish brusqueness and brawn, can St. Just find the killer
before the
next-in-line to the family fortune ends up dead?
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