The Goldenacre : A Shona Sandison Mystery

Author: Miller, Philip

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 2 June 2022 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom as part of The Shona Sandison Mysteries series.

Paperback | 304 pages
130 x 198 x 27 | 308g

An outstanding mystery thriller… Noir fans won’t want to miss it - Publishers Weekly (Starred)A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth - Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy and The Long DropThe Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery.

Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the paintings complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.

Both investigators soon become engulfed in the machinations of money, crime and identity in a literary thriller set amid the seen and unseen forces at work in modern Scotland.

Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel