The Detective's Secret (51 page)
But Jack does not see everything. A man has died beneath a late-night train, and Jack’s friend Stella, the detective’s daughter, suspects it could have been murder.
Now Jack and Stella are stirring up the past with questions that no one wants answered – questions that lead to an unsolved case nearly twenty years old. And up here, in the tower’s strange, detached silence, Jack won’t hear danger coming until it’s too late...
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First published in the UK in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Lesley Thomson, 2015
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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Quotes on page iv:
from
Walker Evans at Work
, with an essay by Jerry L. Thompson © 1982
by The Estate of Walker Evans. Reprinted by kind permission of
Thames & Hudson Ltd, London.
from
Another Water: The River Thames for Example
© Roni Horn, 2000
9 7 5 3 1 2 4 6 8
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (HB) 9781781857700
ISBN (XTPB) 9781784082628
ISBN (E) 9781781857694
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