Solicitor Eric Ward maintains a small criminal practice on Newcastle's Quayside. This simple life, however, is soon to change. Eric's reluctant attendance at an annual dinner leads him to meet Ben Shaw, a merchant banker who seems to know an awful lot about him. What Shaw tells Eric leads to the uncomfortable dredging up of his past. It seems Jason Sullivan QC- the reason behind Eric's marriage break up- is involved in something big and it is up to Eric to find out what. Meanwhile, DCI Charlie Spate's investigation into illegal immigration has revealed a new level of organization. Prostitution. Drugs. It's big business. However, Spate is strangely pulled off the case in favor of re-opening a cold case: the killing of Michael Podro, an old man whose murder bore a striking resemblance to Nazi death camp killings. A strange, undetermined tattoo on his shoulder may be the only clue to the truth behind his murder. As past and present collide, Roy Lewis takes us on a gripping and suspense-ridden trip that keeps the pages turning until at last the two seemingly unrelated stories explode into one.
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Reminiscent of Graham Greene, Ward's Newcastle is real, unromantic. --Financial Times
Lewis smartly moves his hero in and out of his bind while making his devotion to his clientele entirely understandable --New York Times --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Lewis smartly moves his hero in and out of his bind while making his devotion to his clientele entirely understandable --New York Times --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Roy Lewis is a Welshman who now lives in the north of England, the setting for many of his novels. He has written over forty novels, including the acclaimed Arthur Landon series of mysteries.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A consistently enthralling and quite tactfully authored novel on the life and times of Eric Ward,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Embers of the Dead: An Eric Ward Mystery (Eric Ward Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Embers Of The Dead by Roy Lewis is a consistently enthralling and quite tactfully authored novel on the life and times of Eric Ward. Readers will follow Eric through the transition of everyday criminal lawyer through the endless twists and turns of an investigation into the seemingly vindictive intentions of a man who destroyed his past and marriage. Embers Of The Dead is filled with enveloping plot changes involving murder, Nazi death camp remembrance, drugs, illegal immigration and prostitution, sure to enrapture the reader and very highly recommended to the realistic-fiction, mystery-thriller and general readers for its more than consuming plot.
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The weather on Tyneside had a disconcerting habit of being fine and sunny and bright on those days when the pile of folders and files on Eric Ward's desk tended to reach mountainous proportions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ben Shaw, Jason Sullivan, Elaine Start, Charlie Spate, Peter Olinger, Michael Podro, Jackie Parton, Hollander Project, Aline Pearce, Chief Constable, Beau Soleil, Georges Duclos, Mike Fremantle, Sherstone Manor, John Jarvis, Eric Ward, Mark Vasagar, Home Office, Morcomb Enterprises, Susie Cartwright, Eastern Europe, Grey Street, Frank Dennis, Mad Jack Tenby, Port des Minimes New!
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The weather on Tyneside had a disconcerting habit of being fine and sunny and bright on those days when the pile of folders and files on Eric Ward's desk tended to reach mountainous proportions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ben Shaw, Jason Sullivan, Elaine Start, Charlie Spate, Peter Olinger, Michael Podro, Jackie Parton, Hollander Project, Aline Pearce, Chief Constable, Beau Soleil, Georges Duclos, Mike Fremantle, Sherstone Manor, John Jarvis, Eric Ward, Mark Vasagar, Home Office, Morcomb Enterprises, Susie Cartwright, Eastern Europe, Grey Street, Frank Dennis, Mad Jack Tenby, Port des Minimes New!
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- A Limited Vision by Roy Harley Lewis in Front Matter
- A Kind of Transaction (Lythway Large Print Series) by Roy Lewis in Front Matter
- A Form of Death: An Eric Ward Mystery (Eric Ward Mysteries) by Roy Lewis in Front Matter
- Certain Blindness by Roy Harley Lewis in Front Matter
- Blurred Reality (Lythway Large Print Books) by J.R. Lewis in Front Matter
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