Trick of the Dark

Trick of the Dark

by ValMcDermid (Author)

Synopsis

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn't know who sent the package, or why, yet she can't get the crime out of her head. But as she delves deeper, and steps back into the mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye...

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Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 528
Publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown)
Published: 17 Feb 2011

ISBN 10: 0751545988
ISBN 13: 9780751545982
Book Overview: A fascinatingly rich and complex mystery lies at the heart of this novel - McDermid's most ambitious and best yet

Author Bio
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.