The Lost Language Of Oysters Author Forename:Smith, Alexande He tries to solve the

He tries to solve the crime himself before the police can - who suspect the woman

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel - winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year - comes The Force

Appearance and reality are not always the same

Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective

A debut novel from Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre

The Lost Language Of Oysters Author Forename:Smith, Alexande He tries to solve theProfessor Moritz Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professor he is the author of that great work of scholarship, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. His eminence in language studies is widely recognised, even if it is rarely acknowledged by his colleague, Professor Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer, author of a much less important work on the subjunctive. Their rivalry bubbles away under the surface, but is apt to come into the open if something unusual