Diana's altar
By: Barbara Cleverly
Series: A detective Joe Sandilands novel -- 12
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781616956646
Subjects: Fiction
Description: "Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest bears witness to the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest, the death is ruled a suicide, compounded by a formal confession before death.  The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands is sent all the way from London to investigate. Thrown into a deadly ring of cloak-and-dagger politics and high-society hedonism, Sandilands must uncover the truth before the Hellfire Club, an elite society composed of intelligentsia and aristocrats, topples the institutions and harms the people he has sworn to protect--especially one he has come to truly love"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-387).