Inspector Sam Blackstone has dealt with arsonists before but never one quite like this. If the arsonists true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning dow
Blackstone and the Burning Secret (The Blackstone Detective Series Book 4)
โ Scribed by Spencer, Sally
- Book ID
- 109552261
- Publisher
- Endeavour Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Series
- Inspector Blackstone 4
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B00ODE4GHM
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โฆ Synopsis
Inspector Sam Blackstone has dealt with arsonists before but never one quite like this.
If the arsonists true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure?
Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze?
And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet?
In order to answer these questions, Blackstoneaided by Dr Ellie Carr, a passionate disciple of the new science of criminal pathologymust follow a trail of death and destruction.
That trail will lead them to the very centre of government itself.
And, not for the first time, Blackstone soon realises that in solving this case, he may well be destroying his own career.
Blackstone and the Burning Secret is a brilliantly plotted historical mystery from a master of the genre.
Praise for Sally Spencer:
Spencer's finest hour: a tightly plotted puzzler with surprises at every turn Kirkus Reviews
Spencer is an accomplished craftsman who serves up a good puzzle and deftly solves it with intelligence and insight Publishers Weekly
Characters are diverse, intriguing, and believable . . . plots never fail to surprise; and the procedural details are grittily realistic Kirkus Reviews
Sally Spencer worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now writes full time.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
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