Silk Patterns (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Edward Distell, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. Chicago Detective Tom Murphy didn't ask for a case involving runway models, Milanese couture, and British intelligence. He got one anyway.When Saskia Lenz dies in the aftermath of the Moretti fashion show, Murphy recognizes the gap between what the official report says and what the evidence suggests. The investigation takes him out of his jurisdiction and into a world where beauty is currency, silence is purchased in bulk, and the people best positioned to explain what happened are protected by institutions that would prefer the questions stop.From the loading docks of River North to the design houses of Milan, the private rooms of London, and a disappearing atelier in the old medina of Tangier, Murphy follows a thread of coded silk through a conspiracy built on proximity to power and the willingness of everyone involved to look the other way. His only reliable guide is a photographer named Eddie Vale who has spent twenty years watching the fashion world say everything except the truth.Silk Patterns is literary noir - precise, atmospheric, and unsparing. It is a novel about what institutions protect, what witnesses survive, and what happens when a detective refuses to sign the report and walk away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Silk Patterns (Paperback)
- Author
- Edward C. Distel
- Publisher
- Edward Distell
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235680302
Chicago Detective Tom Murphy didn't ask for a case involving runway models, Milanese couture, and British intelligence. He got one anyway.
When Saskia Lenz dies in the aftermath of the Moretti fashion show, Murphy recognizes the gap between what the official report says and what the evidence suggests. The investigation takes him out of his jurisdiction and into a world where beauty is currency, silence is purchased in bulk, and the people best positioned to explain what happened are protected by institutions that would prefer the questions stop.
From the loading docks of River North to the design houses of Milan, the private rooms of London, and a disappearing atelier in the old medina of Tangier, Murphy follows a thread of coded silk through a conspiracy built on proximity to power and the willingness of everyone involved to look the other way. His only reliable guide is a photographer named Eddie Vale who has spent twenty years watching the fashion world say everything except the truth.
Silk Patterns is literary noir - precise, atmospheric, and unsparing. It is a novel about what institutions protect, what witnesses survive, and what happens when a detective refuses to sign the report and walk away.
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About the Author
Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.
Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.
He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.
These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.
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