Now, in the blank-faced and mazed city, death had become vicious and secret and cold. Somewhere out there, an ego was coiled, waiting.
Winner of a Golden Dagger award, Paula Goslings Monkey Puzzle introduces us to Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive cop, an oddball, and (occasionally) a genius.
When Grantham Universitys most unpopular professor is viciously murdered there are a myriad of potential suspects, and one of whom happens to be connected to Strykers past . . .
The murderous attacks continue. The city and the campus panic. Stryker is trapped in a maze of conflicting motives, emotions and clues. And at the center of the maze awaits a monster.
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Review
Plotted with great guile, this is a scintillating entertainment * Sunday Times * Grips and amuses to the last sentence * The Times * A neat variation on old themes, nicely written and convincingly expounded * Financial Times * Paula Gosling is one of the best in the genre * Police * Done with immense dazzle * The Guardian * An interesting plot in an excellently portrayed setting * TLS *
About the Author
Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has since garnered both the Silver and Gold Daggers. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.