The Corpse with the Granite Heart

by Cathy Ace

Overview

Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are in London, England, to meet their friend John Silver's freshly minted fiancée, the daughter of a recently deceased Shakespeare aficionado, and captain of industry. The trip is supposed to be filled with art galleries, good food, and Christmas spirit. However, an untimely death at a posh dinner party threatens to send shock waves through the upper strata of London society.

Cait and Bud's desire to seek out the truth is blocked by a shadowy figure who's been tasked with keeping the incident hush-hush, but – as the body-count rises – the investigation develops a dreadful momentum.

This is the eleventh Cait Morgan Mystery, and it finds our usually unstoppable duo running up against the immoveable machinery of power...with tragic consequences.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160762173
Publisher:	Four Tails Publishing Ltd.
Publication date:	11/05/2021
Series:	The Cait Morgan Mysteries , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	620 KB

About the Author

Cathy Ace migrated from her native Wales to Canada at the age of 40. She is the award-winning author of the traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, which have now been optioned for TV. She also writes the cozier WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries featuring a quartet of female PIs who run their business out of a Welsh stately home. Both series have been well-reviewed. Her award-winning standalone, THE WRONG BOY, is a gripping novel of psychological suspense, set in Wales, and has also been optioned for TV.

"Ace is, well, an ace when it comes to plot and description.” The Globe and Mail

Cathy's work has won the prestigious Bony Blithe Award for best Canadian light mystery, an IPPY and an IBA Award, and has been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story.

Her short story "Dear George" appeared on the UK's O Level English Language syllabus and, together with another story, "Domestic Violence", has been produced for BBC Radio 4. You can find out more about Cathy, her books, and events she'll be attending, at www.cathyace.com

Editorial Reviews

"Her writing is stellar. Details, references, allusions, expertly crafted phrasing, and serious subjects punctuated by wit and humour. Her references to local settings intrigue me."

Ottawa Review of Books - W.L. Hawkin

"...Cait gathers the suspects in one room for a summing up. If all of this suggests the school of Agatha Christie, it's no doubt what Cathy Ace intended. She is, as it fortunately happens, more than adept at the Christie thing."

Toronto Star - Jack Batten

"...Cait unravels the...mystery using her eidetic memory and her powers of deduction, which are worthy of Hercule Poirot."

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Steve Steinbock

"The book is very much in the cosy crime category with nods to Agatha Christie...Along with Cait we have puzzles to solve and lines of investigation to follow. If you're good you come to the same conclusion as she does!"

crimesquad.com - S. D.