Mistress of the Just Land
A Jean Brash Mystery 1
$24.83
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2016
Summary
The first book in a new series by the creator of Inspector McLevy.
New Year’s Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh an elegant, female figure walks the cobblestones - with a certain vengeful purpose.
Jean Brash, the Mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her own bawdy-house (the best in Edinburgh and her pride and joy).
A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473632271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473632277 |
| Author: | David Ashton |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Jean Brash |
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PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEVY SERIES
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town’s steep cobbles and dark corners - Financial TimesAn intriguing Victorian story… elegant and convincing - The TimesMcLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson - Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actorDavid Ashton’s writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and his narrative grabs you - The Sherlock Holmes SocietyAshton’s McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own - ScotsmanAbout The Author
David Ashton
DAVID ASHTON was born in Greenock in 1941.
He studied at Central Drama School, London, from 1964 to 1967, and most recently appeared in The Last King of Scotland and The Etruscan Smile. David started writing in 1984 and he has seen many of his plays and TV adaptations broadcast - he wrote early episodes of EastEnders and Casualty, and twelve McLevy series for BBC Radio 4.
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