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The first book in the brilliant William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London.
William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor – and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds, a deadly fairy story in which no one obeys the rules, least of all Dougal’s girlfriend Amanda. As the body count rises, the couple pursue both the diamonds and their doom from London, to an East Anglian cathedral close, from Cambridge to a wintry Suffolk estuary.
William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor – and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds, a deadly fairy story in which no one obeys the rules, least of all Dougal’s girlfriend Amanda. As the body count rises, the couple pursue both the diamonds and their doom from London, to an East Anglian cathedral close, from Cambridge to a wintry Suffolk estuary.
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Reviews
CAROLINE MINUSCULE is more than just a good first novel with the promise of more and better to come . . . It is also a crucial bridge between the traditional English mystery and the contemporary British crime novel.
Lively and entertaining
An amusing romp
This one's a maverick . . . [with] a professional touch unusual in a first novel
I hope to meet the lively and amoral William Dougal again. And again . . .