The House of Dust (The Quintilian Dalrymple Crime Novels)

The House of Dust (The Quintilian Dalrymple Crime Novels)

by PaulJohnston (Author)

Synopsis

It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent - a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. But at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot.



Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer. And a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford's mysterious heart - the place known only as the House of Dust - to his home city.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 07 Feb 2002

ISBN 10: 0340766131
ISBN 13: 9780340766132
Book Overview: Quint Dalrymple's first investigation outside the former Scotland combines a taut highly original crime novel with pungent political comment.

Media Reviews
Hugely entertaining... engagingly imagined * The Times on BODY POLITIC *
First-rate crime fiction with an original twist * Sunday Telegraph on THE BONE YARD *
Johnston brings an intelligent perspective to the dark excitement of the thriller * Nicholas Blincoe, Observer on WATER OF DEATH *
This futuristic series is still refreshingly original and entertaining * Sunday Telegraph on THE BLOOD TREE *
Johnston's plotting is consummate and his characterisation deft. He is also a very funny political satirist...Very enjoyable * Observer on THE HOUSE OF DUST *
Author Bio
Paul Johnston has written four previous highly-acclaimed crime novels, the first of which, BODY POLITIC, won the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger. He divides his time between a small Greek island and Scotland where he was born and grew up.