DCI Neil Paget has a knack for catching the most difficult cases in the village of Shropshire. There's always a red herring, and nothing is ever what it seems. Paget longs for a little good luck, a smoking gun, a cut and dry case that'll solve itself in a couple of days.What DCI Paget gets on this particular night, however, is a case even more baffling than average. A prominent local businessman is dead in a hotel room only minutes from his home, five vicious knife wounds in his chest. The crime scene is flooded with his blood, and there's evidence of a second person in the vicinity moments after the murder.Is this the slam dunk case that Paget has been waiting for? Find that second person and close the book, right? Hardly - everyone the victim was associated with seems to have a motive,
… read more...and Paget's motley crew of officers turns up a new suspect every time they find a clue. There's got to be a solution - but can he find it before his luck really runs out?AUTHORBIO: Frank Smith lives in British Columbia, Canada.Read More read less...