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Step so grave
When photographer Davey Cartwright accepts an invitation to tender for a honeymoon cruise he is as unaware it is the first step in a planned revenge as he is of his ex-porn-star wife’s past.
Similarly, Ed Hetherington’s self-congratulation at exchanging dodgy US dollars for a share in ScotCruise wanes when he realises others are reaping financial benefits.
On board, not all honeymooners are what they seem. A journalist fears brides are being murdered to order and co-opts a colleague to masquerade as husband. An art thief’s last-minute choice of assistant renders him vulnerable, and he is as unaware of DI Luke Darbyshere’s intent to arrest him as Luke is of the presence of a one-time friend whose wife he immediately plots to bed.
As they sail from Leith to Lerwick one bride disappears. A second suffers a fatal accident. In Shetland, death comes closer still and the week culminates in a pursuit through Edinburgh’s Waverley station.
Similarly, Ed Hetherington’s self-congratulation at exchanging dodgy US dollars for a share in ScotCruise wanes when he realises others are reaping financial benefits.
On board, not all honeymooners are what they seem. A journalist fears brides are being murdered to order and co-opts a colleague to masquerade as husband. An art thief’s last-minute choice of assistant renders him vulnerable, and he is as unaware of DI Luke Darbyshere’s intent to arrest him as Luke is of the presence of a one-time friend whose wife he immediately plots to bed.
As they sail from Leith to Lerwick one bride disappears. A second suffers a fatal accident. In Shetland, death comes closer still and the week culminates in a pursuit through Edinburgh’s Waverley station.
432 pages, Paperback
Published September 3, 2019
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Sandra Davies
12 books33 followersArtist, printmaker, family historian and writer, born in Essex, lived in Teesside for decades.
Easing myself from a decade of printmaking, I began writing fiction in 2010. As well as 'Edge', the illustrated 'One that got away' spawned three novels written for my own entertainment.
Thereafter I further challenged myself and began a tale of murder. Luke Darbyshere and Baz Rose seized hold of my imagination. I wanted to know more about their occasionally toxic relationships with each other, and with the women they loved. Murder became the background against which were enacted the triangles of their lives and their affairs and to date they have featured in four novels: 'Step so Grave', 'Longest shadows reach'. 'Commissiom & Omission' and 'Drink with a dead man' All available from https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDa...
Easing myself from a decade of printmaking, I began writing fiction in 2010. As well as 'Edge', the illustrated 'One that got away' spawned three novels written for my own entertainment.
Thereafter I further challenged myself and began a tale of murder. Luke Darbyshere and Baz Rose seized hold of my imagination. I wanted to know more about their occasionally toxic relationships with each other, and with the women they loved. Murder became the background against which were enacted the triangles of their lives and their affairs and to date they have featured in four novels: 'Step so Grave', 'Longest shadows reach'. 'Commissiom & Omission' and 'Drink with a dead man' All available from https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDa...
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October 11, 2021
This expertly plotted mystery within a murder mystery is set on a cruise ship that caters for honeymoon couples. The story sets sail with a full cargo of romance, intrigue, and complex characters, while the writing sizzles with snappy dialogue and dark humour that kept me reading long into the night.
December 18, 2024
Since I wrote this, I am not reviewing it, but I had to re-read it to inform a short story I was writing. Honesty compels me to say I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed doing so. Available from: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9633748-ste...
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