Local author, Arthur Hughes, has just published a new detective novel,
The Pursuit of Truth.
Call 958 793 583 or 634 824 381 (email: garthurh@aol.com ) to purchase your signed copy directly from the author.
Price €9.00 [UK RRP £8.99].
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The Pursuit of Truth by Arthur Hughes
THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH
by Arthur Hughes
During the hot summer of 1983, a three week British Council summer school is held on the campus of the University of Reading. English language teachers from all over the world, mostly young women, have come to improve themselves professionally and to experience British life and culture.
A week before the course ends, the body of a middle-aged tutor is found spread-eagled below the window of his fifth floor room in the Hall of Residence where the summer school is based. A letter addressed to him threatening to reveal a secret is found in the room and, as there is no sign of a struggle or of any intruder, suicide seems the probable cause of death.
Detective Chief Inspector Richard Healey is given charge of the case. The dead man has widowed a beautiful young Filipina, to whom Healey is immediately attracted. At various times, drugs, sex and money all offer to explain the tutor’s death but on the last night of summer school something is said that turns the whole case on its head…
The Pursuit of Truth will appeal to lovers of crime fiction and has been favourably compared, by a literary editor, to the Dalziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill.
About the Author:
Arthur Hughes has travelled extensively. He was born in Llanrwst, brought up near Liverpool and educated in Widnes. At 25, he emigrated to Canada where he got a degree in Psychology. He then returned to the UK, where he taught at Reading University until retirement. He has lived and worked in Turkey and Morocco and now lives in both Spain and Reading.
PUBLISHED Matador 1st September 2011
£8.99 ISBN 9781848767232 Paperback 280PP 198×127 mm Portrait
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I really enjoyed this – wizzed through it because it was pacy and difficult to put down. I’d like to see more of the protagonist, Healey, and his laconic family in subsequent books. It was liberally sprinkled with clues and red herrings and I kept flicking back to check something written earlier to see if I’d misinterpreted it.
I have to express my appreciation to the writer.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
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