Hide and Seek
'Hide and Seek' is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two.
It’s April 1943. Medical student Helen Erickson is followed from London to her aunt’s farm in Perthshire. What do her pursuers want?
Meanwhile Monique Dubois is attending a secret meeting at Stirling Castle when an old adversary is murdered in a chilling echo of a dark episode in the castle’s history. Bob Sutherland and the MI11 team are called in and discover that almost everyone who knew the victim had a motive.
Helen disappears and it becomes clear that national security is at stake. Monique sets out to find the missing woman before anyone else does, even if it means killing to protect her. Can Monique find Helen? Can Bob track down the killer at Stirling Castle? And just how dangerous have things become for both of them?
'Hide and Seek' was published by Arachnid Press on 26 May 2023 and is available in paperback and Kindle editions. The cover design is the work of AuthorServices.scot
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Background
- Locations Used in 'Hide and Seek'
- The Character of Bob Sutherland
- The Character of Monique Dubois a.k.a. Vera Duval
- My Life With Books
Excerpts
- Excerpt One: Princes Street Station
- Excerpt Two: Surrender
- Excerpt Three: An Encounter in the Gardens
Reviews
NextToTheAisle, 26 May 2023:
- "Drawing from a wealth of influences... Lussey has again written an entertaining page-turning novel that delivers in spades of enjoyment and tension."
- "What is so good about this book... is that there is a genuine sense of not knowing what is coming next."
- "The scene where Monique and Anthony discover the carnage at the aunt's farm was to this reader reminiscent of the opening to No Country for Old Men told with such assuredness that comes from a writer confident in the characters he has created."
- "While that is daring and driven, Bob's castle death is closer to an Agatha Christie novel and those famous drawing room murders where everybody is a suspect."
- "Lussey has in the past six years created this quite wonderful world of World War Two espionage and mystery..."