Doomed to die

Article number 10125104

To the naked eye she looked like a teenager, but the small, slender corpse of Perdita Master was that of a woman in her thirties, a gifted artist whose secret passions had often extended beyond the canvas. Somehow, someway, Perdita had known she was going to die before her time. DETECTIVE INSPECTOR LUKE THANET Perdita’s husband greets Inspector Luke Thanet with a black eye, a bruised face, and an alcoholic breath: either innocent of murder or a superb actor. The clues are few, but as Thanet digs deeper into the cloudy past of Perdita Master and the secret life revealed in her art, he discovers the real, tortured artist… and a host of friends and family who could have delivered the coup de grace. PRAISE FOR DOROTHY SIMPSON “A writer with subtlety, deft double-plotting and an unobtrusive literary style.” — THE WASHINGTON POST and for her DEAD BY MORNING “Simpson gets better and better.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Simpson is a master of the police procedural.” — DROOD REVIEW OF MYSTERY and SUSPICIOUS DEATH “Dorothy Simpson’s… series featuring Inspector Luke Thanet of the Sturrenden CID is… imaginatively conceived and skillfully executed… Simpson is an adroit storyteller with a talent for creating complex and intriguing characters, not the least of whom is Thanet himself.” — THE SAN DIEGO UNION. Winner of the crime writers' Association Silver Dagger Award