An Exceptional Corpse

Mike McLean #1

by Paul Adam

This is the first book in the acclaimed series of thrillers featuring tenacious, sharp-witted investigative journalist Mike McLean.A tense, gripping story of murder, fraud and blackmail, An Exceptional Corpse plays out with a dark, Chandleresque wit and a pace and excitement that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.From the opening scene on a windswept winter’s night on the Derbyshire moors, when millionaire Sheffield businessman Richard Sutton is found dead in his crashed Rolls-Royce, we are drawn irresistibly into McLean’s colourful world. Dishevelled, determined, a man of integrity in a dirty, corrupt jungle, the reporter will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. Suspicious about the car crash, he probes deeper, investigating a mysterious fire at Sutton’s offices on the night he died. Then the businessman’s secretary is found dead in the canal and McLean realises he’s on the trail of something much more than just murder – a dangerous trail that takes him from the derelict East End of Sheffield to the bleak hills of the Peak District and a last, desperate stand on the menacing Iron Age fortress of Carl Wark.

345 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 1993

About the author

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- Paul Adam is an English writer of novels for both adults and younger readers. He studied law at Nottingham University, then began a career in journalism, working both in England, in his childhood town of Sheffield, and Rome. Since then he has written 11 critically acclaimed thrillers for adults and the Max Cassidy series of thrillers for younger readers about a teenage escapologist, the first of which, Escape from Shadow Island, won the Salford Children's Book Award. His books have sold widely around the world and have been translated into several foreign languages. He has also written film and television scripts. Adam lived in Nottingham for many years but now lives in Sheffield with his wife and two children.

Reviews

[Alsjem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love Paul Adam, so easy to read and enjoyable story mystery and action.