SHORTLISTED FOR MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS'' ASSOCIATION ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2024
SHORTLISED FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS BEST FIRST NOVEL 2024
''An epic, devastating, majestic mystery. Clever, richly imagined and outright thrilling'' Chris Whitaker
Berkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms at the opulent Claremont Hotel. A rich industrialist, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of adversaries. But Detective Al Sullivan''s investigation brings up the spectre of another tragedy at the Claremont ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the wealthy and influential Bainbridge family. Some say she haunts the Claremont still.
The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Ir
