The Dusk Messenger Author:Colin Eston The discovery of an impaled body sets DS Emma Saint and her team on the trail of a killer. When her boss is hospitalised, she and DC Hamish Mackay enlist the aid of Ben Czinner. As they investigate a mysterious religious cult, uncover political corruption and discover that the hotel where the first body was... more » found offers more than conventional room service, links with a brutal past murder begin to surface.
Suspects abound in the present - a religious social worker, an oily hotel manager, an unnervingly emotionless autistic son of repressive parents, a self-obsessed, beautiful and amoral young man and a vociferously objectionable local councillor - but are they all they seem? Might one of them be the youth who slaughtered a helpless old couple seventeen years before?
More deaths follow, posing the possibility of more than one killer.
In a tense climax, both Saint and Mackay nearly die at the hands of the killer and unexpected characters prove heroic.
Tension, humour and tragedy combine with a host of believably suspicious characters to keep the reader guessing until the very end, when the identity of the dusk messenger is finally revealed.« less