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A mysterious body discovered in a Salt Hedge alongside a crate of stolen books sets the stage for an intriguing investigation. Ruan Peat, the determined detective, delves into the case, unraveling secrets and connections that intertwine the victim with the literary world. As Peat navigates through clues and motives, the story explores themes of crime, morality, and the significance of knowledge, making for a gripping narrative filled with twists and revelations.

Lukitt Bachman is waiting in his Lanterne de Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He has become an assassin and a murderer, learned the terrible highs and lows of friendships made and lost, and is awaiting now his last remaining friend to set him free so he can put right past wrongs.

Hestan Island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack; home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost crushed to death in their tiny copper mine, when their shared past begins to unravel.

Burning Secrets is book 2 in the Scottish Mysteries series

Deadly Prospects is book 1 in the Scottish Mystery series.

Scotland and Ireland 1798. Three people, two murders, one oath.

"Chop off my head and hawk it to the highest bidder. I'm the Anatomist's Dream, did you know? That's what they call me." In a small salt-mining town, Philbert is born with a taupe, a disfiguring inflammation of the skull. Abandoned by both parents and with only a pet pig for company, he eventually finds refuge and companionship in a travelling carnival, Maulwerf's Fair of Wonders, as it makes its annual migration across Germany bringing entertainment to a people beset by famine, repression and revolutionary ferment. Philbert soon finds a caring family in Hermann the Fish Man, Lita, the Dancing Dwarf, Frau Fettleheim, the Fattest Woman in the World and an assortment of freak show artists, magicians and entertainers. But then Philbert meets Kwert, Tospirologist and Teller of Signs, and when he persuades the boy to undergo examination by the renowned physician and craniometrist, Dr Ullendorf, both Kwert and Philbert embark on an altogether darker and more perilous journey--Page 2 of jacket.

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