The Master — Martin O'Brien

Death is just a brush stroke away… In the heat of a Proven?al summer, Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is called to a luxury hotel on the slopes of the Grand Lub?ron. One of the guests, a high-class call girl from Marseilles, is missing. Her bedroom is drenched in blood, but there is no body. Jacquot soon discovers that among the remaining guests there are those who have both the means and the motive to be her killer, people with personal secrets, hidden agendas, and their own dangerous liaisons to protect. When a violent summer storm and raging flash floods isolate the hotel, passions run high when not one, but two bodies are found. (Originally published as Jacquot and the Master) Praise for the Jacquot series "Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Marseilles Police is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional cops." Henry Sutton, The Daily Mirror "Tall and tough, smart and sexy, Daniel Jacquot is a first-rate series hero." Kirkus Review (US) "Jacquot is an excellent character, no doubt set for a long and entertaining career, and the scenery of corruption in the South of France is very well painted indeed." The Birmingham Post "A strikingly different detective, Jacquot walks off the page effortlessly. And O'Brien seems to bend the plot at will, each time leading readers up an alley only to dart away into the shimmering heat." The Good Book Guide "O'Brien's ability to deliver a sense of place makes him worth watching." The Washington Post