Untrue till Death, Graham Brack
Untrue till Death, Graham Brack
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Untrue till Death
Murder in 17th Century Europe

Author: Graham Brack

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2021


Synopsis

This time murder has hit close to home . . .

1674, Leiden, the Netherlands

After successfully solving the case of the missing girls in Delft, Master Mercurius has made a name for himself as a private investigator.

With unrest occurring both nationally and internationally, William of Orange is obsessed by plots against his leadership.

He calls on Mercurius to help to spy on state officials. But before Mercurius has a chance to investigate, his colleague at the University of Leiden is killed.

And when one of William's men is also murdered, Mercurius suspects there could be a serial killer on the loose . . .

Are the two deaths connected? Is there a plot against the Dutch ruler? And can Mercurius successfully solve another murder case?

About Graham Brack

Graham Brack hails from Sunderland and met his wife, Gillian, in Aberdeen, where they were both studying pharmacy. After their degrees Gillian returned to Cornwall and Graham followed. This is now called stalking but in 1978 it was termed "romantic." They have two children, Andrew and Hannah, and three grandchildren, Miranda, Sophie, and Olivia. Gillian and Graham now live in Northamptonshire.

Graham's foray into crime writing began in 2010 when he entered the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger competition and was highly commended for Lying and Dying (previously titled The Outrageous Behavior of Left-Handed Dwarves), in which the world was introduced to Lt. Josef Slonský of the Czech police. Slaughter and Forgetting followed. Both have been republished by Sapere Books along with another four in the series, Death On Duty, Field of Death, A Second Death, and Laid in Earth.

In 2014 and 2016 Graham was shortlisted for the Debut Dagger again. The earlier novel, Death in Delft (previously titled The Allegory of Art and Science), is set in seventeenth-century Delft and features the philosophy lecturer and reluctant detective Master Mercurius. Sapere Books published it in 2020.


Reviews

4.5★ “‘No doubt you are wondering why I sent Van Looy for you.’ I was, of course. A secondary question was why a man of sense would send Van Looy for anything.” No rest for the weary – or is it the wicked? Master Mercurius is certainly not wicked, but he is a bit weary. He imagined a clerical, academi......more