The Sinful Stones

By: Peter Dickinson

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Paperback | 24 February 2015

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236 Pages

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20.3 x 13.3 x 1.37

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Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson

Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize–winning scientist was one of the builders of the first atom bomb. Is Francis senile? Paranoid? Was the manuscript really stolen? What’s the real reason he sent for Pibble?

As Pibble tries to untangle the mystery of the missing document, he starts to suspect that the devout millenarian religious sect inhabiting the island may be less virtuous than it seems; the community is strangely hell-bent on preventing Francis from ever leaving. It’s up to Pibble to seek out the truth and find his own salvation before the walls of Jericho come tumbling down forever.

The Sinful Stones is the 3rd book in the James Pibble Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Industry Reviews

"Fantastically inventive . . . a story full of imaginative detail with a stirring, sardonic end." -TheDaily Telegraph

"Here is that rare bird among thrillers: one that combines sheer speed and subtlety, through sheer writing skill." -The Sun

"A delight to read." -The Times Literary Supplement

"Splendid." -The Times (London)

"So richly contoured as to demand comparison with the best contemporary fiction." -The Scotsman

"Peter Dickinson is a master of the bizarre. . . . The Sinful Stones is bewildering and yet believable, marvelously mad but perfectly logical. . . . I had an usually good, and often gripping time with it." -Louis Untermeyer

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