The Evil That Men Do

Inspector Faro #7

by Alanna Knight

Faro is a happy man. His stepson Vince is to marry into Edinburgh’s high society. At a sumptuous family party disaster strikes. His future father-in-law is poisoned and Faro’s detective skills reveal that the murderer has to be a family member. As further investigations reveal sinister and terrible secrets, death strikes the fated family again and other lives, including Vince’s and Faro’s own, are in danger.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Victorian

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

aka Margaret Hope

Alanna Knight MBE has published more than sixty novels (including sixteen in the acclaimed Inspector Faro series, and seven featuring his daughter Rose McQuinn), as well as non-fiction, true crime and several books on Robert Louis Stevenson, numerous short stories and two plays since her award-winning first book ‘Legend of the Loch’ in 1969. A founding member and Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Writers and of the Edinburgh Writer’s Club, born and educated on Tyneside, she has two sons and two granddaughters and lives in Edinburgh.

Reviews

[Little Red Readinghood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love will not conquer all as Vince finds out.

[Vikas Datta · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite a thrilling mystery in a quaint Victorian way