A Degree of Death: Volume 1 (Drake and Hepple mysteries) - Softcover

Lawson, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979955522 ISBN 13: 9781979955522

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

A DEGREE OF DEATH is the first in Bryan Lawson' series of Drake and Hepple mysteries.A member of the Singapore Parliament is found murdered on a footbridge in Chester. A DEGREE OF DEATH is a crime novel about the past sneaking up on the present and making a real mess of things. It is September 2005. Murky oriental history is entangled with events at Deva University in Chester, a brand new institution doing its best to invent tradition. But do these new ivory towers hide more worldly pursuits, and what really goes on behind the genteel façades in the historic city of Chester?DCI Carlton Drake is widely recognised for being as clever as he is tall and clumsy. He resumes duties after a sabbatical, taken for personal reasons, to investigate this diplomatically sensitive case. By contrast his high-flying young assistant Grace Hepple is stylish but inexperienced. Together they uncover an intriguing mystery.The investigation takes Drake to Singapore where he discovers that the past is never far from the surface in this modern metropolis. Chinese societies, illegal ivory trading, academic jealousy and raw ambition jostle together to create a confusing and dangerous cocktail.

About this title

About the Author:

Bryan Lawson is an architect and psychologist and has studied the relationship of people to place and published over 300 books and articles. For many years he was Head of School and Dean of the Faculty of Architectural Studies at Sheffield University. His first book “How Designers Think” has been in continuous print since 1980 and sold over 100,000 copies. He has now seen the light and turned to crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1979955522
• ISBN 13: 9781979955522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268