Gerald John Makinson, Inspector of the North Yorkshire police admits defeat and calls Holmes to Harrogate immediately. Holmes is asked to investigate a series of only loosely connected to one another. The four victims live and work in the local area, and each has been brutally murdered. Three of the
Mammoth Books Presents Cold to the Touch
โ Scribed by Simon Strantzas
- Book ID
- 111727429
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781472102393
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Stories often find their origins in unexpected ways," Strantzas reveals. "I was inspired in this case by a photograph of a Zen garden I once used as my computer's desktop background. After staring at it day-in and day-out while I worked, I began to wonder about that dark circle of rocks and just what its true purpose might be. "There was something there in the coldness of the photograph, something that brought to mind the barren vistas of the Canadian Arctic, which ended up being the perfect setting for my tale of tested faith."
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