Payback

Payback

by Alan Dunn (Author)

Synopsis

Security consultant, ex-cop and some-time detective Billy Oliphant is suffering from more than just Winter blues. His girlfriend is on a year's sabbatical in North America and his exwife is honeymooning with her new husband, leaving Billy with their sixteen-year-old daughter. Sly, Billy's friend, thinks that a weekend at the Forestcrag Moorland Holiday Village will cheer him up. But having battled the worsening weather to get to Forestcrag, they discover things are far from idyllic. The park manager believes someone is poisoning his staff. Billy is reluctant to get involved, but soon has little choice when the Village is snowed in and the body of Eric Salkeld is discovered. It looks like a straightforward suicide. Left nominally in charge of the investigation by police unable to get to the crime scene, Billy feels that the suicide looks a little too staged. Amongst the guests trapped at the Village, there could be a killer. And, if the police are right that a recently escaped prisoner is heading for Forestcrag, perhaps more than one...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 05 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 0749933356
ISBN 13: 9780749933357

Media Reviews
'Enough twists and hairpin turns to have your head spinning. Terrific storytelling' CAMPBELL ARMSTRONG 'A dark thriller that trumpets an emerging talent' Time Out 'good tight prose...' Literary Review 'this excellent novel is both a delight and a surprise...it will be a pleasure to see Dunn's next book' Newcastle Journal