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Strange Images of Death
Author(s): Barbara Cleverly (Author)
- Publisher: Constable
- Publication Date: 25 Mar. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849011184
- ISBN-13: 9781849011181
Book Description
It is summertime in Provence, 1926, but for Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands it’s not all ‘Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth’. Joe is on leave, driving his way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient chateau in the Luberon hills. Her father is spending the season here, one of a group of talented artists who are the guests of a generous but enigmatic host. A troubling crime has been committed days earlier at the chateau, leaving a clear message that more violence is to come. To allay panic, Joe agrees to stay on and root out the guilty person. But, despite Joe’s vigilance, a child goes missing and an artist’s beautiful young model is murdered in circumstances eerily recreating a six hundred year old crime of passion. Helped and hindered by a rising star of the French Police Judiciaire, Joe must delve into a horror story from the castle’s past before he can tear the mask from the diseased soul responsible for these contemporary crimes.
Editorial Reviews
Review
In this cunning variation on the country-house whodunit, Cleverly proves a great strategist –The Scotsman
About the Author
Barbara Cleverly was born in the north of England and is a graduate of Durham University. A former teacher, she has spent her working life in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; she now lives in Cambridge. She has one son and five step-children.
Her Joe Sandilands series of books set against the background of the Indian Empire was inspired by the contents of a battered old tin trunk that she found in her attic. Out of it spilled two centuries of memories of a family – especially a great uncle who spent a lot of time in India – whose exploits and achievements marched in time with the flowering of the British Empire.
To find out more about the series, visit www.barbaracleverly.com.
