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The Beauty of Murder

The Beauty of Murder

Author(s): A K Benedict

Location(s): Cambridge

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Modern and 17th Century

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Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can’t shake. When he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen, he thinks he’s found the reason. But when the police go to retrieve the body and find no trace, Killigan has found a problem – and a killer – that is the very opposite of reason.

Killigan’s unwitting entry into Jackamore Grass’s sinister world will lead him on a trail of tattooists, philosophers, cadavers and scholars of a deadly beauty. As Killigan traces a path between our age and seventeenth century Cambridge, he must work out how a corpse can be found before someone goes missing, and whether he’s at the edge of madness or an astonishing discovery.

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Written in sinuous, elegant prose with characters that linger in the mind…one of the more interesting debuts this year. (DAILY MAIL )

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