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Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.
He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger.
<p>A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant</p>
- Laura Shepherd-Robinson,
<p>A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best</p>
- Mick Herron,
<p><strong>A heady mix of murder, intrigue, and a supernatural interlocutor</strong>. Taylor’s prose is characteristically fluid, his ability to conjure empathy for his cast – both real and spectral – wonderfully perceptive, and the plot itself gripping in the very best traditions of mystery writing. <strong>A thorough delight from start to finish</strong></p>
- Vaseem Khan,
<p>An engrossing, eerie and erudite page turner which maintains the suspense until the very end … I defy anyone not to enjoy this captivating whodunnit!</p>
- SW Perry,
<p><em>A Schooling in Murder</em> captures the period brilliantly and what a loveable main character– a total delight</p>
- Leonora Nattrass,
<p>Beguiling</p>
- Douglas Skelton,
<p>This most unusual murder mystery – in which the reader is aligned with the murder victim after her death – is <strong>an absolute triumph</strong>. Andrew Taylor turns the conventions of mystery stories on their head to explore secrets hidden just beneath the surface within a closed community. <em>A Schooling in Murder</em> is <strong>clever, tender and utterly haunting</strong>.</p>
- Tim Major,
<p>Andrew Taylor re-invents the classic crime story with the dark aplomb of a modern master</p>
- S.G. MacLean,
<p><em>A Schooling in Murder</em> is a clever, distinctive, and beautifully written mystery from a crime writer who is top of the class</p>
- Martin Edwards,
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.
He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger.