The Painted Doll Affair
by Angus MacVicar
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Pub Date 4 Nov 2016 | Archive Date 11 Nov 2016
Description
“An assassination has been arranged and will shortly take place in the village of the Painted Doll.”
The slight problem with this statement of course was that on the map the village of the Painted Doll did not exist …
Freelance journalist and private investigator Bruce McLintock and his wife Mary Jo have been married a mere three weeks when news of a journalistic scoop suddenly arrives to clear their honeymoon hangover.
There’s something on the grapevine about a killing. Big time and political.
And all those who make a noise of it tend to meet a savage and brutal end…
Accompanied by their underground eye, former petty crook Scliffy Gallagher, McLintock and Mary Jo head out to the west coast of Scotland to follow up on the elusive clues they have been given.
Here in the lonely countryside they find a superstitious population who live in fear of the old stories of fire-worshippers on the prowl for victims of sacrifice.
And with reports of a drug problem spreading amongst their youth, they declare a kind of evil has sprung upon them.
Determined to get to the heart of the matter, McLintock and Mary Jo wind their way through Celtic mysteries and recent bloody events until they chance upon a killer’s plot.
Something on a much grander and more threatening scale than they had originally assumed.
With time ticking away, will they be able to stop the killer before it is too late?
The Painted Doll Affair is a gripping mystery thriller filled with suspense, suspicion and secrets.
Praise for Angus MacVicar
"Angus MacVicar runs John Buchan close as the supreme spinner of an enthralling yarn" — Daily Express
"The writer par excellence of Scottish thrillers" — Western Independent
“The finest exponent of the thick-ear thriller since the palmy days of ‘Sapper’ and John Buchan.” —Eric Gillett, in Time and Tide
Angus MacVicar was a Scottish writer specialising in crime thrillers, young adult and autobiography. His other books include The Singing Spider, The Ten Green Brothers and Crime's Masquerader .
The slight problem with this statement of course was that on the map the village of the Painted Doll did not exist …
Freelance journalist and private investigator Bruce McLintock and his wife Mary Jo have been married a mere three weeks when news of a journalistic scoop suddenly arrives to clear their honeymoon hangover.
There’s something on the grapevine about a killing. Big time and political.
And all those who make a noise of it tend to meet a savage and brutal end…
Accompanied by their underground eye, former petty crook Scliffy Gallagher, McLintock and Mary Jo head out to the west coast of Scotland to follow up on the elusive clues they have been given.
Here in the lonely countryside they find a superstitious population who live in fear of the old stories of fire-worshippers on the prowl for victims of sacrifice.
And with reports of a drug problem spreading amongst their youth, they declare a kind of evil has sprung upon them.
Determined to get to the heart of the matter, McLintock and Mary Jo wind their way through Celtic mysteries and recent bloody events until they chance upon a killer’s plot.
Something on a much grander and more threatening scale than they had originally assumed.
With time ticking away, will they be able to stop the killer before it is too late?
The Painted Doll Affair is a gripping mystery thriller filled with suspense, suspicion and secrets.
Praise for Angus MacVicar
"Angus MacVicar runs John Buchan close as the supreme spinner of an enthralling yarn" — Daily Express
"The writer par excellence of Scottish thrillers" — Western Independent
“The finest exponent of the thick-ear thriller since the palmy days of ‘Sapper’ and John Buchan.” —Eric Gillett, in Time and Tide
Angus MacVicar was a Scottish writer specialising in crime thrillers, young adult and autobiography. His other books include The Singing Spider, The Ten Green Brothers and Crime's Masquerader .
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780091170004 |
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