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''Dazzling'' The Guardian on Borderlands

''A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists'' Peter James on Gallows Lane

''Some of the very best crime fiction being written today'' Lee Child on Bad Blood

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Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He''s been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below...

The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched -

Preserve The Dead

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    A Paperback / softback by Brian McGilloway

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 07/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9781472133670, 978-1472133670
      ISBN10: 1472133676
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Dazzling'' The Guardian on Borderlands

      ''A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists'' Peter James on Gallows Lane

      ''Some of the very best crime fiction being written today'' Lee Child on Bad Blood

      ________

      Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He''s been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below...

      The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched -

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