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Book SynopsisKnown as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the third in a series - set in dark, violent Victorian Edinburgh.
Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEVY SERIES
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and dark corners
* Financial Times *
An intriguing Victorian story...
elegant and convincing * The Times *
McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and
Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson * Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor *
David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and
his narrative grabs you * The Sherlock Holmes Society *
Ashton's McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own * Scotsman *
A real page-turner * Sunday Post *
Dripping with melodrama and derring-do * Herald *
