Good morning everyone!
D. L. Johnstone, author of 'Chalk Valley', a riveting serial killer novel I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing earlier on our blog, recently published his new novel 'Furies'!
To check out my review of 'Chalk Valley' click here.
Congratulations! Wishing you much success and I personally am excited to read this one!
The best-selling author of the riveting crime thriller CHALK VALLEY returns with another gripping tale of criminal evil.
FURIES
It’s
36 CE. The city of Alexandria is a center of Roman commerce—and a
sinful playground for the pleasure-seeking rich and powerful.
For
wealthy merchant Tarquitius Aculeo, however, Alexandria has become
hell. Ruined by a string of mysterious investment disasters, abandoned
by friends and family, Aculeo is desperate to recover his wealth and
status.
But his search for the reasons behind his downfall draws him into a web of violence.
A
common slave is found murdered in the magnificent temple of the god
Serapis. Days later, the brutalized body of a high-priced hetaira is
discovered floating in a canal, after an evening entertaining the city’s
elite. The grim truth soon becomes clear: A ruthless killer is moving
among Alexandria’s aristocrats, commercial titans, and philosophers.
And ominous clues begin to connect those murders to Aculeo’s own personal quest.
Aided
by an Egyptian mortuary attendant, a brilliant philosopher, a beautiful
hetaira, and his last remaining friends, Aculeo must unmask and stop a
deadly murderer if he is ever to reclaim the life he has lost.
But first, he must survive…
Meticulously
researched, expertly crafted, FURIES is a highly original crime
thriller that transports you into an ancient, exotic world. It weaves
threads of exquisite beauty and stark brutality, phenomenal wealth and
degrading poverty, clashing philosophies and colorful mythologies, into
an unforgettable fabric of this lost golden age.
And it confirms D.L. Johnstone’s status as one of today’s most imaginative new thriller authors.
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