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Impolitic Corpses (Quint Dalrymple 8)
Paul Johnston

November, 2038.
Scotland has been reunified and Edinburgh's thirty-year experiment with supposedly benevolent totalitarianism is over. But there's still plenty of work for ex-investigator Quint Dalrymple, who's looking into an attempted strangling in Leith.

A young man has been attacked by an assailant wearing a bizarre tree-fish costume. Before Quint can make headway, he is asked by the head of government to look into the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles. How could Angus Macdonald, leader of the opposition, have vanished from inside his locked bedroom while his valet was sitting outside? And why has a severed finger been hidden in the room?

​When a body is discovered, arranged in a disturbingly macabre pose, it becomes clear the two cases are linked. As Quint delves further, he is drawn into a complex web of deception whose threads lead far back into his past ...

GENRE
Crime; Dystopian; Mystery

UK PUBLICATION
August 2019

​Praise

"The plot twists frequently, building up to a jaw-dropping climax. Series followers and newbies alike will be hooked."
Publishers Weekly

"The plot twists frequently, building up to a jaw-dropping climax. Series followers and newbies alike will be hooked."
Goodreads ​review


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