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  • Published: 15 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781405926249
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

Loch of the Dead

Frey & McGray Book 4




Inspectors Frey and McGray return in this Jonathan Creek-style mystery set in Victorian Scotland

A woman pleads for the help of Inspectors Frey and 'Nine-Nails' McGray. Her son, illegitimate scion of the Koloman family, has received an anonymous death threat - right after learning he is to inherit the best part of a vast wine-producing estate.

In exchange for their protection, she offers McGray a cure for his sister who has been locked in an insane asylum after brutally murdering their parents: the miraculous waters that spring in a small island in the remote Loch Maree.

The island has long been a sacred burial ground, but the legends around it will turn out to be much darker than McGray could have ever expected.

  • Published: 15 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781405926249
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

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Oscar de Muriel gets better and better

Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express S Magazine

I am addicted to Frey and McGray

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This is wonderful. A brilliant, moving, clever, lyrical book - I loved it. Oscar de Muriel is going to be a name to watch.

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A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery

The New York Times

Fun to read and a fast page-turner . . . love and murder - they go together like strawberries and cream

Independent

I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic

Ian Rankin

This entertaining novel combines melodrama with the unhappiness of life backstage

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