Ink Ribbon Red - Crime Collective EditionThe problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: discover the most original literary thriller of 2024, from the author of the sensational Eight Detectives The master puppeteer of literary crime Janice Hallett Today's greatest exponent of playful detective fiction Guardian Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game. All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one

and a tiresome three-day journey to the forested outskirts of the Empire is the last thing Libertus

a world of suspicion and fear

Her past is about to be unforgotten

discontent is rife and rumours are swirling

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And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up

she seeks peace in its solitary woods and hidden creeks

after Ian Fleming's death

rough whisky and rougher men

the other on a merchant ship in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century

It's a tale that might seem familiar