Treachery becomes a habit.? London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The?city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle.?Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest?of investigations: matrimonial. The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a differe
A Slightly Bitter Taste
โ Scribed by Carmichael, Harry
- Book ID
- 109504938
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781448205295
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
On the night that Quinn of the Morning Post began his holiday, he strayed into a late party. When he got drunk, a girl called Carole made herself responsible for him. Next day, she took him off for a quiet weekend with friends in Dorset. But within a few hours, death had joined the guests at Elm Lodge... Inevitably, Quinn gets caught up in the smouldering passions that govern the house of secrets.
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