The beauty of murder
By: A.K. Benedict
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471351778; 9781471351785
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Stephen Killigan, a junior lecturer at Cambridge, stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen. But when the police go to retrieve the body they find no trace. Killigan's unwitting entry into Jackamore Grass's sinister world will lead him on a trail of tattooists, philosophers, cadavers and scholars of a deadly beauty. As Killigan traces a path between our age and seventeenth century Cambridge, he must work out how a corpse can be found before someone goes missing, and whether he's at the edge of madness or an astonishing discovery.
Notes: Originally published: London: Orion Books.