Scorpio Rising (A Phillipa Hardcastle Mystery)

by Karen Mason

Overview

Private Investigator Phillipa Hardcastle’s last exciting case was three years ago, when she helped find missing novelist Patty Belleville. Since then her life has returned to the humdrum world of chasing cheating husbands, making ends meet, and being both mother and father to Maisie, her teenage daughter. But what starts off as a routine job - setting a honey-trap for the Brazilian toy-boy of a famous astrologer - ends in a case so bizarre even Phillipa couldn’t have predicted it.

When Phillipa is handed the wrong bag in a nightclub, the unusual photographs she finds inside leads her to an investigation involving an amateur plastic surgeon who is deforming young women. Is she working alone? Or is she part of a bigger, more sinister operation? A strange set of coincidences leads Phillipa to become reacquainted with a handsome former colleague who becomes vital to her solving the case, but at the same time inadvertently puts both Phillipa, and those she loves, in mortal danger. Will Phillipa’s most interesting investigation in years also be her last?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044738331
Publisher:	Karen Mason
Publication date:	07/23/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	267 KB

About the Author

Karen Mason was born in London in the 1970s and has been writing since childhood. When she was eight she was runner up in the Write a Limerick Competition on Blue Peter and at aged twenty two was a runner up in the now defunct Me! Magazine 'Write a Blockbuster' competition. In 2008 Karen decided to go down the self-publishing route and has since published several historical fiction novels including the Never Forget and Line of Passion series. In 2014 Karen was a runner up in the Good Housekeeping Novel Writing Competition and she was named a Writer to Watch.

2017 sees the release of Out of Darkness, the first book in an exciting new saga