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Also by Oscar de Muriel:

Loch of the Dead, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
A Mask of Shadows, June 2018
Hardcover
A Fever of the Blood, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Strings of Murder, May 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

THE STRINGS OF MURDER
By: Oscar de Muriel

Frey & McGray Mystery
Pegasus Books
May 2016
On Sale: May 3, 2016
412 pages
ISBN: 1681771322
EAN: 9781681771328
Kindle: B019G14ZN6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Historical

The brutal slaying of a violinist in his home in 1888 sparks a locked room murder mystery investigated by two diametrically opposed Edinburgh detectives.

1888: a violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails" McGray, local legend and exact opposite of the foppish English inspector. McGray’s tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond belief...

There was no way in or out of the locked music studio. And there are black magic symbols on the floor. The dead man’s maid swears there were three musicians playing before the murder. And the suspects all talk of a cursed violin once played by the Devil himself.

Inspector Frey has always been a man of reason—but the longer this investigation goes on, the more his grasp on reason seems to be slipping...