Half a world away in Spain and running from his past, a Los Angeles gangster unwittingly takes a train thatβs headed straight into a terrorist attack. He survives only to face an even deadlier threat. On that same train: a pathologist with clues to a deadly epidemic. Did his secrets die with him in
White Horse
β Scribed by Joss Stirling
- Book ID
- 110947324
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Series
- Jess Bridges Mystery #2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780008422608
- ASIN
- B087TDG13N
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β¦ Synopsis
A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. 3000 years ago Iron Age people carved a White Horse on the Downs near Uffington Castle and now someone has dumped a body there. Laid out like a ceremonial killing, Detective Inspector Leo George isn't convinced that the murder is what it appears.He suspects the young femaleΒ victim may have been a member of the Children of the White Horse, a secretive valley commune, but none of the cult members are talking. That is until he discovers his friend, Jess Bridges, is undercover in the commune, attempting to persuade a wayward young woman to leave the cult.Leo is confronted by the fact that Jess is heading right into the heart of a mystery that has less to do with ancient gods than it does modern vices, and there is nothing old about spilling blood...
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