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Violet Hill

By: Henrietta McKervey
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
Published: February 2019
Pages: 288
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781473682689
ASIN: 1473682681

December 1918: Post-War London is grieving, the city a wound whose dressing was taken off too soon. Violet Hill, the only female private detective in the city, is hired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's business manager to uncover spiritual trickery he believes is deceiving his employer. January 2018: Susanna is a super-recogniser, one of an elite Met Police team of officers with extraordinary powers for facial recognition. When a freak injury causes her unusual ability to suddenly disappear, a dangerous criminal whom she no longer recognises decides to close in. Compelling stories across two eras weave into this page-turning, literary adventure of identity, deception, danger - and detection.

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