MURDER IN THE STUDIO a gripping British crime mystery full of twists

<p><strong>A victim who's made her last mistake.</strong></p><p><strong>A killer hiding in plain sight.</strong></p><p><strong>Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . .</strong></p><p><br></p><p>One Saturday morning Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court a secluded little seaside community of artists entrepreneurs and drifters. Where <em>someone</em> just committed the ultimate crime.</p><p><br></p><p>Behind the doors of Jem Calloway's studio the walls the canvases <em>everything</em> is stained red. With blood.</p><p><br></p><p>Slumped in Jem's chair <strong>there's a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck</strong>. She is <strong>Luanna Forbes</strong> owner of the bijou gift shop next door.</p><p><br></p><p>Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party.</p><p><br></p><p>And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn't tell.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What - or <em>who</em> - made him hold his tongue?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water she's got her work cut out . . .</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Discover a stunningly accomplished police procedural with untold emotional depth. Fans of Joy Ellis P.D. James Ruth Rendell Jane Adams Tana French or Rachel Caine are sure to be enthralled.</strong></p>