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Synopsis
When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is about to be arrested. Eddie learns that the deadly intrigue goes further back than the present time to a two-hundred-year-old manuscript, written by Franz Anton Mesmer, and recently purchased by Dr. Maurice. The manuscript, written in Old Italian, appears to be a catalyst that sparks killing sprees, as history shows that Mesmer’s great-great-granddaughter, who smuggled the manuscript out of East Germany, became the first of many women to die horribly at the hands of a demented serial killer. But what’s the connection? Eddie arranges to have the manuscript translated, but when he goes to collect it, he discovers the translator dead, her head brutally crushed by a killer who specializes in breaking bones very slowly. Eddie’s investigation unearths gruesome information about England’s notorious Newgate Prison, once frequented by Mesmer but long since burned to the ground. The paparazzi are all over Eddie and Dr. Maurice’s wife as Eddie works to disprove Scotland Yard’s claim that Dr. Maurice is a monster. Eddie is determined to help the good Doctor and prove the police wrong. But are they?
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About the Author
Mike Harrison has worked in advertising for much of his life and has an eclectic interests that include motorcycling, hiking, cooking, and hypnosis. He lives in Okotoks, Alberta, with his wife and two cats. This is his second book.
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In this sequel to All Shook Up (2005), which introduced Eddie Dancer, the Canadian private eye wings his way to England, where a psychologist (and friend) stands accused of multiple murders. Eddie's investigation soon zeroes in on a two-century-old manuscript, written in Old Italian by an Austrian physician. The manuscript convinces Eddie that, bizarre as it might sound, he could be dealing with a reincarnated serial killer. Eddie is a tough-talking, straight-shooting, dry-witted kind of guy, but Harrison somehow manages to make him different from all the other tough-talking, straight-shooting, dry-witted PIs out there. The supporting cast, from Dr. Peter Maurice (who turns out to be not quite the wronged man he claims to be) to various British characters, is uniformly excellent. Deftly combining suspense and Eddie's natural wit, the novel is sure to appeal to fans of the private-eye genre. David Pitt
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- PublisherECW Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 155022719X
- ISBN 13 9781550227192
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages287
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