Silent Thorn: Nine Is One Too Many

By Peter Davill

The first in the Salt and d'Acre Mystery Series, in which a detective and an anaesthetist team up to solve a series of cold cases that were cleared up too easily, perhaps.

Dr. Rachel Salt anaesthetises a detective as his leg is rebuilt after he was hit by a truck on the Aston Expressway. He wakes in post-op to discover that he's going to be incapacitated for months.

During his recovery, his boss gives him a pile of old cases to review. The investigation leads him to a series of deaths that he thinks might have been an easy close for the investigation team, because the killer died too. Everything just fell into place too easily. To him something smells fishy and he wants them reopened. His boss gives him a deadline to find something, anything concrete or forget them. Then there's another one and the cold cases suddenly become hot.

He calls upon Rachel's expertise to help him understand how they died. Everyone thinks that the killers are from a drug and alcohol-fuelled underclass, who binge on the fruits of their crime and then die of excess. Rachel points him in a radical new direction and they gradually uncover the truth.

Then the plot takes a darker turn and their growing relationship is put in jeopardy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CNPM849N
• ISBN13: 9798861879309
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"