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Imprint: Arcadia
Format: B Format
ISBN: 9781906413651
Price: £ 7.99
Pages: 220 pp
Date: 13 August 2010
‘You will be hooked by this perfectly crafted, intelligent, old-fashioned thriller – it is a puzzle that keeps you turning the pages. Thoroughly recommended’ A N Wilson, Reader’s Digest
‘Replete not only with pagan ritual, but internet pornography, blackmail and child trafficking . . . all finely realised’ Independent
‘A thriller convincingly set in the world of museums in London and Southend. Wrapped up in satanic rites and paedophilia, The Orpheus Trail is both moving and sombre … engrossing’
Emmanuel Cooper, Tribune
‘Her gripping new novel . . . a sensation’ Diva
‘This dark, atmospheric tale has a very modern psychological resonance’ Sebastian Beaumont, one80
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The Orpheus Trail
Maureen Duffy
WHEN A CHILD IS FOUND DEAD among the charred remains of a pier fire, surrounded by the old-fashioned toys of the Greek god Dionysus and a ritualistic fire basket, Detective Inspector Hildreth calls in the local museum’s curator, Alex Kish, to help him decipher the mysterious symbolism.
Soon afterwards an ancient Saxon amulet is stolen from the museum and the dead bodies of young boys begin to turn up arranged as grotesque works of art with components of the gold amulet around their necks. The enigmatic Detective Inspector draws the curator into a strange web of ancient secrets, pagan ritualism and the illegal trafficking of young boys.
Have the boys been murdered? How have they got there? What is the meaning of the symbols? And most of all who is responsible and why?
The Orpheus Trail is a tense thriller where Hildreth and Kish are caught up in a race against time to interpret these ancient codes and clues before death claims another young life.
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