The Master

Death is just a brush stroke away… In the heat of a Provençal summer, Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is called to a luxury hotel on the slopes of the Grand Lubéron. 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. Reviews 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 "O'Brien, as always, makes effective use of his chosen setting – a sunny place for shady people." – Daily Mail " 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 "The Marseilles scene seems to be written by a native. O'Brien's ability to deliver a sense of place makes him worth watching." – The Washington Post