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Skeleton Blues by Paul Johnston

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Also by Paul Johnston:

Skeleton Blues, April 2016
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Maps Of Hell, May 2010
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The Soul Collector, May 2009
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The Death List, September 2008
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The Death List, July 2007
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SKELETON BLUES
By: Paul Johnston

Quint Dalrymple
Severn House
April 2016
On Sale: April 1, 2016
234 pages
ISBN: 0727885782
EAN: 9780727885784
Kindle: B01BKNLPKO
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Mystery

Ex-cop Quint Dalrymple discovers there is something very rotten in the independent city-state of Edinburgh in this near-future dystopian thriller.

Edinburgh, spring 2034. The weather’s balmy, there’s a referendum on whether to join a reconstituted Scotland coming up – and a tourist is found strangled. As usual, maverick detective Quint Dalrymple is called in to do the Council of City Guardians’ dirty work.

For the first time in his career, Quint is stumped by the complexity of the case. An explosion at the City Zoo is followed by the discovery of another body – and the prime suspect is nowhere to be found. Can Quint and his sidekick, Guard commander Davie, put a stop to the killings before the city erupts into open violence? Are the leaders of other Scottish states planning to take over Edinburgh, or is the source of unrest much closer to home? Quint must race to pull the threads together before he becomes one of the numerous skeletons on display …

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