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Shadow of the Rock

 

A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery

 

 

Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger 2013

 

One humid summer night in Gibraltar, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. Solomon is on the run, accused of a brutal murder in Tangiers. He has managed to skip across the Straits but now the Moroccan authorities want him back.

 

Spike travels to Tangiers to try and delay Solomon’s extradition, and there meets a beautiful Bedouin girl. Zahra is investigating the disappearance of her father, a trail which leads mysteriously back to Solomon. Questioning how well he knows his friend, Spike finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, corruption and murderous lies.

 

 

‘If you want a terrific thriller to enjoy, try
Shadow of the Rock
... It’s ace – an original, pacy, great writing debut’ Susan Hill

 

‘I loved
Shadow of the Rock
. Mogford’s sharp prose drew me in from the first page and his intriguingly flawed hero Spike stands out in the memory’ Sadie Jones

Sign of the Cross

 

A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery

 

 

A domestic dispute has escalated into a bloodbath.

 

Spike Sanguinetti’s uncle and aunt are found dead.

 

Leaving the courtroom behind, Spike crosses the Mediterranean to Malta for the funerals. The more he learns about his relatives’ violent deaths, the more he is troubled by one thing: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife before turning the knife upon himself?

 

Reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Zahra, Spike embarks on a trail that leads from the island’s squalid immigrant camps to the ornate palazzos of the legendary Knights of St John. In Malta, it seems, brutality, greed and danger lie nearer to the surface than might first appear.

 

 

‘Very original and brilliantly rendered ... a rare and enviable talent’

William Boyd

 

‘Evocative, engrossing and entertaining’

The Times

 

 

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First published in Great Britain 2014

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