When several crime novelists start turning up dead, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur must untangle a trail of dedications and a puzzling postscript. A seemingly ordinary death becomes the first clue in an investigation that reaches into the literary world.

The action moves from domestic scenes to an Aberdeen literary festival, then to the streets of Edinburgh and onward across Europe. The novel blends police procedural work with metafictional intrigue as Kaur questions how authors imagine—and inadvertently invite—real violence.

Compact and suspenseful, this paperback delivers character-driven mystery and a sharp look at the connections between readers, writers and the crimes they describe.

• Protagonist: DS Harbinder Kaur
• Settings: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, European road trip
• Length: 352 pages

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