When Detective Inspector Nathaniel Thomas
is presented with an anonymous letter and three unexplained deaths in less than
twenty-four hours, he realizes that his idyllic home village Crottendorf masks
a turbulent reality. Summoning his trusted colleague, DS Ann Collins, Thomas
begins to unravel what quickly becomes an overwhelming mountain of conflicting
evidence.
So many secrets. So many lies. So many
attempts to cover things up.
All is not as it first appears and it
proves a lot harder to pin down the killer who prides himself on being more
than one step ahead of the DI.
A deeply rooted family tragedy, greed and
vengeance are at the core of this crime novel. The twists and turns of
Sophomania leave you wondering to the very end who the real murderer is—or if
there may actually be more than one killer on the loose in the
anything-but-sleepy village of Crottendorf.
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He switched
on the torchlight of his mobile phone and prodded it some more. Carefully, he
began to scrape away several pats of mud.
Thomas
leaned in closer, eyeing the oblong object in front of him from different angles.
Razor-thin,
parchment-like skin spanned the entire length of what looked like a piece of
bone. He put his splayed hand next to it, but when realisation struck him, it
was too late.
Where
usually a plate with his food stood, lay now the mummified bone of a crooked
finger.
Hello … And who might you belong to? Where is
the rest of your body? Are you alive or dead? Perhaps not a joke, after all.
A dozen
similar questions caused a jumble in his head. He felt suddenly giddy with
excitement. The lack of brainteasers at work and the summer heat had made him
sluggish.
Still, he
wasn’t sure what to make of this. The finger did look real and human, though
the bone was a bit shorter and thinner than his small finger. The deprivation
of humidity could easily make it shrink, he knew. Thomas picked it up with a
piece of kitchen towel and held it into the sunlight. There were three
phalanges of the finger (a thumb consisted of only two phalanges, while all
other fingers had three). He wondered where the bone had been kept.
Something
else inside the envelope suddenly caught his eye, and only now did he notice
the neatly folded piece of paper. He fished it out and smoothed it onto his
knee. A message revealed itself in the same typewriter print used for his name
and address. He delicately turned the paper over, but it was blank on the other
side.
He read the
message with interest. Curiouser and
curiouser …
Author
Bio –
Danielle Zinn is a German author, born and
raised in a small village in the Ore Mountains/Germany where not only her debut
crime novel Snow Light is set but also her second book, Sophomania.
She holds a BA (Hons) degree in Business
and Management from New College Durham/UK and has settled down in Leipzig/Germany
where she works as a Financial Controller at an IT Consultancy.
She was introduced to the world of English
literature and writing from an early age on through her mother – an English
teacher. Over the last years, she circumnavigated the globe and loves visiting
her friends scattered all over the world.
Social
Media Links –
Twitter:
@DanielleZinn4 https://twitter.com/daniellezinn4
Facebook:
Danielle.zinn.7 https://www.facebook.com/danielle.zinn.7
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