Jack-in-the-Box
A D.I. Lomond Thriller
by Pat Black
£9.99
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Crime & thriller
Reviews
Plunges into Glasgow's suburbs where an invisible killer is stalking the streets... gripping
Sunday Post
Full of intrigue, a cracking, fast-paced thriller which has you hooked to its dramatic end
Scottish Field
Another in his excellent, blunt, Glasgow-set DCI Lomond stories . . . the setting and plot were excellent, with a Glasgow of newly-minted houses as well as dereliction, gangsters and disrupted families, police rifts and rubbish food. An impressive work
The Critic
A superbly thrilling read. Expertly-paced and jittering with tension, Jack-in-the-Box is also page-turningly entertaining
LoveReading
A thoroughly enjoyable whodunit set in Glasgow... an entertaining read that will appeal to fans of crime fiction and lovers of puzzle-solving alike
Undiscovered Scotland
Cleverly infuses modern housing developments with the kind of dread normally associated with gothic mansions or remote cabins
The Herald
About the Book
Home can be the most dangerous place.
They had cameras, alarms, lights, even guard dogs. They had storm doors and locks on their windows. They knew martial arts, they had knives to hand, and one of them even had a gun. And he still got in . . .
A terrifying killer is haunting Glasgow’s affluent suburbs – invading homes and smothering people left on their own. The tabloids have a name for the murderer based on his method of folding the bodies into tiny spaces, as well as his uncanny knack of seemingly springing out of nowhere: Jack-in-the-Box.
Inspector Lomond has an impossible case to crack. The houses involved have state-of-the-art security systems and were all securely locked at the time of death. There is no evidence of forced entry, and video footage shows no sign of any intruders. How is he getting in? How is he getting out? And who will be next?
The Author
Pat Black
Pat Black is a journalist and the author of several thrillers published by Head of Zeus, including The Family and The Winter House. He has been published in magazines including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Pat was born and raised in Glasgow but now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and children.
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