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Authors: Alanna Knight
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Police Procedural, #Mystery & Detective, #Historical, #Crime
A
LANNA
K
NIGHT
has written more than fifty novels, three non-fiction titles on R.L. Stevenson, two true crime books, numerous short stories and several plays since the publication of her first book in 1969. Born and educated in Tyneside, she now lives in Edinburgh. She is a member of the Scottish chapter of the Crime Writers’ Association, a founding member of the Scottish Association of Writers, and Honorary President of the Edinburgh Writers’ Club.
www.alannaknight.com
T
HE
I
NSPECTOR
F
ARO SERIES
Murder in Paradise
The Seal King Murders
T
HE
R
OSE
M
C
Q
UINN
SERIES
The Inspector’s Daughter
Dangerous Pursuits
An Orkney Murder
Ghost Walk
Destroying Angel
Quest for a Killer
Deadly Legacy
T
HE
T
AM
E
ILDOR
SERIES
The Gowrie Conspiracy
The Stuart Sapphire
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MURDER IN PARADISE
The year is 1860 and Inspector Faro has been transported back to one of the darkest moments of his career – the chase of the notorious Macheath across the Scottish border to the Kent countryside. Whilst there, Faro meets an old school friend, Erland Flett, who is working alongside the artist William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites whose unconventional lifestyle is a startling revelation.
Erland is about to marry a beautiful but mysterious young lady, Lena Hamilton. Faro recognises her as the famous Madeleine Smith, accused of murdering her lover, but never convicted. Now Faro realises that he must apprehend Macheath and save his friend from certain death at the hands of the ruthless Miss Smith … and time is running out.
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Hardback first published in Great Britain in 2011.
Paperback edition first published in 2012.
This ebook edition first published in 2012.
Copyright © 2011 by A
LANNA
K
NIGHT
The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1102–4