Three British Mystery Novels
About this ebook
An ideal gift for mystery lovers.
A Taste for Blood, set in and around London, by the late Sherlock Holmes expert David Stuart Davies.
Ellipsis, set in London, a psychological thriller by Nikki Dudley.
Lynnwood, by Thomas Brown, set in the New Forest, was listed for the 2014 People's Book Prize.
Three great reads, for those who like to wrap their minds round unusual plots, presented as one omnibus print edition.
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About the author
David Stuart Davies was the author of six novels featuring private detective hero, Johnny Hawke, and another seven novels featuring Sherlock Holmes as well as several non-fiction books about the Baker Street detective including the movie volume Starring Sherlock Holmes.
As well as being a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, and editing their monthly magazine, Red Herrings, David was the general contributing editor for Wordsworth Editions Mystery & Supernatural series and a major contributor of introductions to the Collectors' Library classic editions.
Nikki Dudley is an author, editor, and managing editor of streetcake magazine and also runs the streetcake writing prize. She has a chapbook and collection with KFS. She is the winner of the Virginia Prize 2020 for her second novel.
Thomas Brown has spent the best part of his life reading and studying fiction of all kinds, but his heart beats for Horror and Fantasy.
In 2010, he won the University of Southampton's Flash Fiction Competition for his short story, 'Crowman'. In 2014, he won the Almond Press Short Story Competition, 'Broken Worlds'. In the same year, his first novel, LYNNWOOD, was a finalist for The People's Book Prize. In 2018, he completed a doctoral degree at the University of Southampton examining the limitations of language and how to navigate them to better communicate meaning through fiction.
He lives and works in a small market town bordering the Cotswolds, where he still writes every day.
