{"id":11885,"date":"2016-04-05T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2016-02-28T07:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T12:12:25","slug":"d-is-for-dead-wood-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11885","title":{"rendered":"D is for Dead Wood #AtoZChallenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nO8CKbbjGI0\/VsOnlc1qP6I\/AAAAAAAAWaU\/YmKYvVDH234\/s1600\/D.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Wood\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #361170;\">D is for Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1404199410l\/22609994.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Wood\" width=\"297\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blurb: (from Goodreads) <\/strong><span id=\"freeText10738664445507994273\">Award winning crime novel set in Dundee, Scotland, A mystery and detective story which is a combination of police procedural, and woman in jeopardy. Book 2 of The Dundee Crime Series, with the popular DS Bill Murphy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kara owes money to Dundee gangster Tony and takes to the streets to earn the cash. She narrowly escapes the clutches of a killer on the prowl, but stumbles across the bodies of his other victims. Hunted by the serial killer and the gangsters, Kara goes on the run.<\/p>\n<p>DS Bill Murphy teams up with newcomer, DC Louise Walker in the murder investigation. But Murphy is heading for a breakdown and it is up to Louise to catch the killer.<\/p>\n<p>One of the murder victims is the daughter of Dundee gangster, Tony, and he vows revenge. He is determined to mete out his own kind of justice to the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Who will find the killer first? Tony or the police. And what will happen to Kara? In the end what kind of justice will prevail?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy Links<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Wood-Dundee-Series-Volume\/dp\/0957415346\/\" target=\"_blank\">amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Wood-Dundee-Series-Volume\/dp\/0957415346\/\" target=\"_blank\">amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dundee International Book Prize winner 2009<\/p>\n<p>Chris Longmuir is an award winning novelist. Her previous crime novels have won the Pitlochry Award, and the Dundee International Book Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D is for Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir Blurb: (from Goodreads) Award winning crime novel set in Dundee, Scotland, A mystery and detective story which is a combination of police procedural, and woman in jeopardy. Book 2 of The Dundee Crime Series, with the popular DS Bill Murphy. 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