The Dead Sit Round in a Ring (Detective Stella Mooney Mysteries) - Softcover

Lawrence M.D., David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937384691 ISBN 13: 9781937384692

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, 2013

Synopsis

Detective Stella Mooney has a vicious little vodka habit and a badly shredding love-life, but mostly what she had is a case that's driving her crazy, about four cult-members who committed ritual suicide and the thug who seems to have...come along for the ride? The plot's a cracker, but the secret pleasure here is Stella: messy, conflicted, angry, aging, and extraordinarily interesting.

About this title

Review:

'A throat-grabbing plot' -- Daily Telegraph

'An accomplished first novel. I look forward to her next case' -- Sunday Telegraph

'An author and a character to watch' -- Guardian

From the Back Cover:

Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart. Literally - someone put a sharp object between his ribs and pushed, hard. He was found sitting in a circle with three other corpses in the living room of a Notting Hill flat.

Notting Hill - where million-pound houses are just the other side of the tracks from sink estates, where yuppies rub shoulders with hookers, dealers and gangsters - is DS Stella Mooney's patch, so it's up to her to discover who broke this heart of Stone's.

But it's a tough case and she feels like she's going round in circles. In fact circles - circles and rings - are all over this one: vice rings running girls from Eastern Europe; Internet rings peddling vile murderabilia; the tight familycircles of organised crime...

And then there are the rings left by empty vodka glasses, and the dark circles under Mooney's eyes that come from waking up every night at three a.m. having dreamed the same killer dream.

Then, when he private life gets caught up in the quest to find Stone's murderer, Mooney gets the chance to crack the whole thing wide open. But what will the cost be to her - and to those she loves?

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937384691
• ISBN 13: 9781937384692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368