Skin And Blister - Hardcover

Blake, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750527021 ISBN 13: 9780750527026

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2007

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When a student is found dead in his rooms at St Barnabas College, Oxford, it looks nothing more than an unfortunate suicide. A week later, when Sam Falconer's brother disappears, Sam begins to see a disturbing connection between the events. Then her mother receives a Catholic mass card, announcing that a funeral mass is to be said for their son.

Sam begins desperately trying to trace her brother's last movements, attempting to locate the mysterious man he'd spent time with in the days before his disappearance. Behind it all is the nagging fear it could be connected to her father and the murders he committed in Northern Ireland in the seventies. As the trail leads from Oxford to Iraq and back to the troubles in Ireland, Sam learns just how strong blood ties can be �

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Review

The combination of well-oberserved family life, academia and political violence work well, as does this convincingly crazy, mixed-up private eye. (Jessica Mann LITERARY REVIEW)

the third outing for protagonist Sam Falconer ... All neatly done, with an endearing doff of the conductor's cap to the demise of London's routemaster. (TIME OUT)