The Face of Death
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Publisher Description
In Blackmuir Wood, above the Victorian Spa village of Strathpeffer, sixteen miles west of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland, four American students are found with their throats slit. Worse, each has been given a chilling new haircut. The FBI arrive, though too late to prevent another terrible murder. Meanwhile, into town strolls everybody's favourite accidental death-junkie barber, Barney Thomson, looking for a short back and sides and a different hair colour.
The Face Of Death is a 17,000-word Barney Thomson novella that takes place after the events of The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson (the second Barney Thomson novel).
Customer Reviews
Is Murder Fun?
This is clever writing; which might be taken badly, but the author is having so much fun looking at the situation through the distorted lens of his “demon barber”, that you can’t help but pick up on the merry-making too. The most demonic aspect of the fugitive from hair-cutting is the irony of his almost omniscient perspective! Who knew, young Sherlock, that so much could be detected from a haircut? Now we know the secret of hairdressers’ monologs and aleatory connexions. Have fun!