The Red Angel
Out February 2027
Supposed to cure – used to kill.
Powerful. Effective. Indiscriminate. Toxic. A form of chemotherapy so notorious and feared, they call it the Red Devil. And when it is found in lethal proportions in what looks like a harmless glass of red wine, a new murder case is opened.
Young, rising literary star and influential book critic Daisy Churchill is at the height of her powers when she collapses at the prestigious Mayo Gorville Arts Centre in East Cork, later dying in hospital of heart failure. But Daisy had made enemies on her way to the top. Her savage reviews destroyed careers, and behind her carefully cultivated success lay secrets, betrayals and more than one writer with a reason for revenge.
Newly promoted Detective Inspector Kevin Xiao soon discovers that Daisy was poisoned by doxorubicin, The Red Devil, hidden in a glass of sangria. As Xiao investigates the writers gathered at the centre, fighting his own conflicted feelings about being promoted at his old boss Rosa Keane’s expense, he uncovers plagiarism, professional jealousy, sexual intrigue and literary scores waiting to be settled. A cancer waiting for the same, brutal treatment that was meted out to Daisy.
Can he stop the killer before the next victim?
