Erasing Memory: A MacNeice Mystery [Paperback]

Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wifes grave when hes called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing Schuberts Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europes ancient grievances.

Erasing Memoryis a thrilling and assured debut that kicks off an exciting new crime series from Scott Thornley.

EXCITING NEW MYSTERY SERIES:

• We acquired four novels in Scott Thornleys MacNeice Mysteries series:Erasing Memory,Ambitious City,Raw Bone, and the forthcomingVantage Point(November 2018). The three backlist titles will be publishing simultaneously in both the U.S. and Canada in June 2018.

FOR FANS OF POLICE PROCEDURALS WITH STRONG SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:

• MacNeice is a sophisticated and literate detective who appreciates a good book, a glass of fine grappa, and a Miles Davis record on the stereo. Hell appeal to fans of Peter Robinsons beloved Inspector Alan Banks. Along for the ride are Fiza Aziz, the Divisions only homicide detective with a doctorate in criminology  and its only female  and Michael Vertesi, a second-generation Italian who was born two miles from Division HQ, but still considers himself Sicilian.

Not since P. D. Jamess Adam Dalgliesh has there been a police inspector as sophisticated as MacNeice. Toronto Star

The reader is . . . compelled to go on, in part because that killer, if not a superior, twisted mind, is a firstl=