Darkness in My Hand

by Frederic Lindsay (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $9.31

  After a fraught dinner with his ex-wife and her husband, DI Jim Meldrum escapes early to drown the experience. Next morning he awakes in an expensive Edinburgh hotel with bruised knuckles, aching ribs and no memory of how he got there. Over by the window, a woman he doesn't know is getting dressed. If she is to be believed, they have spent the night as lovers. Later that day, the body of a man beaten to death is discovered in an unoccupied room of the second floor of the Hamilton Hotel. The room next to the one in which Meldrum woke up. Who was the dead man? And who killed him? Tormented by doubts as to what might have happened during the hours he can't remember on the night of the murder, Meldrum conducts his search for the truth.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $6.22

  Following a fraught dinner with his ex-wife and daughter, DI Jim Meldrum escapes early to drown the experience. Next morning, he wakes in a bedroom in the Hamilton, one of the smartest hotels in Edinburgh, with aching ribs, bruised knuckles and no idea how he got there. A strange woman comes out of the bathroom, gets dressed and leaves, without explaining who she is or how they came to share a bed. Later that day, the body of a man beaten to death is discovered in the hotel room next to the one in which Meldrum woke up. The victim is identified as James Philipson, owner of an exclusive escort agency of high class call girls. While Meldrum investigates the agency's client list, he is also privately searching for the woman in the hotel bedroom. Tormented by doubts about what may have happened during the hours he can't remember on the night of the murder, Meldrum conducts his search for the truth with