Damned by Logic
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
On-board the MV Helios, cruising around the Mediterranean, copywriter David Ansell is seeking inspiration to write a glowing account of his voyage for the ship’s owner, Rex Cruising Company. His inspiration comes in the form of the blonde and beautiful Melanie Caine and they are inseparable for the rest of the cruise.
Back home in suburbia with his wife, Ansell is pining for Melanie, so is delighted to get a call from her summoning him to meet her – along with the toy monkey she asked him to take through customs for her.
When she doesn’t turn up, he assumes she’s got cold feet and no longer wants to pursue their relationship. However, when reports of a woman’s body being found, horrifically tortured, are aired on the news – and Ansell’s home is broken into with tragic consequences – it seems there’s something that Ansell may have that someone will do anything to find . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Copywriter David Ansell feels trapped in an unsatisfying career and marriage in this absorbing stand-alone from British author Ashford (Justice Deferred). A new assignment to create an advertising campaign for client Rex Cruising Company gives him some reason for hope. Ansell joins the Helios, a ship on a Mediterranean cruise, where he meets Melanie Caine, a prostitute being used as a diamond-smuggling mule. When Melanie twigs that she's been made, she seduces Ansell and uses him to unknowingly offload the diamonds, intending to claim them later. It's a fatal mistake, and one that soon has Melanie in trouble with her handlers and Ansell trapped in a web of his own lies. While Det. Insp. Glover focuses on Ansell as his sole suspect in two deaths, only contrarian Det. Constable Belinda Draper believes Ansell might be innocent. The engaging byplay between Glover and Draper and some nifty police work highlight Ashford's clever resolution.
