A TREASURE HUNT THAT GRIPS THE NATION. A MURDER INVESTIGATION THAT MUST REMAIN SECRET.
A SHOCKING TRUTH THAT UNITES THEM BOTH...
Praise for SCISSORMAN: "One of the year's best thrillers. Simultaneously playful and edgy, Scissorman is a generous helping of dazzling contemporary detective fiction." (BestThrillers.com)
Mid-July in London. It's too hot to sleep. Somewhere in a field in England, a wealthy man buries a sword he believes to be Excalibur. He challenges the public to find it. He wants you to play his game, and he promises it will be different, exciting, strange. It is. Over the course of a week, a series of bizarre stunts capture the nation's imagination. The treasure hunt for Excalibur is front-page news.
But as the game gathers pace a series of extraordinary murders takes place. To Detective Frank Moke, they bear all the hallmarks of a famous unsolved case almost twenty years before, that's haunted him ever since. Could there be any connection between these new crimes and the treasure hunt? With his mysterious rookie assistant, Morgan Luttrell, Frank Moke descends into a world of coincidence and manipulation, where the killer is always a step ahead...
"Chancellor's prose crackles with the playfulness of a contemporary YA thriller, which is perhaps why the juxtaposition of the elaborate scavenger hunt with the emotional heft of Moke's 20-year-old case feels so fresh. While not a historical thriller in the strictest sense, Chancellor also weaves in just enough history - including art, literature and even architecture - to add a hefty dose of intellectual nutrition without over feeling bloated. While the book weighs in at nearly 700 pages, there isn't an ounce of fat in the manuscript... we can't think of a better way to start a series." BestThrillers.com
Sweeping, fast-paced and intricately plotted, Scissorman introduces Frank Moke, the draughtsman detective.
Genre: Mystery
A SHOCKING TRUTH THAT UNITES THEM BOTH...
Praise for SCISSORMAN: "One of the year's best thrillers. Simultaneously playful and edgy, Scissorman is a generous helping of dazzling contemporary detective fiction." (BestThrillers.com)
Mid-July in London. It's too hot to sleep. Somewhere in a field in England, a wealthy man buries a sword he believes to be Excalibur. He challenges the public to find it. He wants you to play his game, and he promises it will be different, exciting, strange. It is. Over the course of a week, a series of bizarre stunts capture the nation's imagination. The treasure hunt for Excalibur is front-page news.
But as the game gathers pace a series of extraordinary murders takes place. To Detective Frank Moke, they bear all the hallmarks of a famous unsolved case almost twenty years before, that's haunted him ever since. Could there be any connection between these new crimes and the treasure hunt? With his mysterious rookie assistant, Morgan Luttrell, Frank Moke descends into a world of coincidence and manipulation, where the killer is always a step ahead...
"Chancellor's prose crackles with the playfulness of a contemporary YA thriller, which is perhaps why the juxtaposition of the elaborate scavenger hunt with the emotional heft of Moke's 20-year-old case feels so fresh. While not a historical thriller in the strictest sense, Chancellor also weaves in just enough history - including art, literature and even architecture - to add a hefty dose of intellectual nutrition without over feeling bloated. While the book weighs in at nearly 700 pages, there isn't an ounce of fat in the manuscript... we can't think of a better way to start a series." BestThrillers.com
Sweeping, fast-paced and intricately plotted, Scissorman introduces Frank Moke, the draughtsman detective.
Genre: Mystery
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