Morgan York, after fifteen years as a private investigator in the city of Bath had promised to retire at the end of the year.
It was a promise he had every intention of keeping until, on the 21st of December, he was visited by Annis James, a twenty-two-year-old PhD student. Annis told him she was the latest in a long line of students whose research was being appropriated by head of department Professor Rabelais. Inadvisedly challenging him at a department dinner, she had been overhead by the Dean and, infuriated, Rabelais vowed to not only ruin her reputation but also threatened her life.
Twelve years ago Rabelais had seduced and then abandoned Morgan York’s daughter. York had long wanted to discredit him and was not going to turn the opportunity down now, regardless of the fact that Rabelais had, just the night before, phoned to reiterate his original death threat.
Week #47’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge and Sioux Roslwski’s photograph. Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover. Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book” http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html
This is a very interesting plot, with lots of twists and turns!
ReplyDeleteKathy M.
Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. I want to read this book. I love almost-retired private detectives. There have been so many great ones, and here's another!
ReplyDeleteKay - I've recently discovered Michael Robotham who has both a retired detective and a psychologist in many of his novels - in my opinion he is second only to Ian Rankin for his writing. Thanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteKathy - thank you for you comment - too many twists to be written I fear!
The villain sounds like someone I'd love to hate. Wish it were a real book so I could about his eventual comeuppance!
ReplyDeleteAnnis must be quite smart to be pursuing a PhD at the age of twenty-two. I'll bet that she and Morgan make a great team in bringing Rabelais (love that name, it wounds so wicked) to justice. Great story idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa and G's Goulash - have to say having given them names I'd like to make more of them but knowing little about any of location, research, detectiving, I'd have to change a few details. But I do know that my youngest was pursuing a PhD at the age of twenty-two ...
ReplyDeleteI too love this wickedly twisting plot!
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