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Cathedral of Lies - The first in the 'Of Lies' series
Amazon Reviewer Anne says: This is one of the best crime books that I've ever read. I've edited my review because I've just finished reading this book for a second time and thoroughly enjoyed it. There is so much action and so many twists and turns that I really can't praise this author enough. I hope this is only the first in a long line of John Pye books. It really is up there with the top crime writers. Well done John Pye. I look forward to your next book and hope that you won't keep us waiting too long.
Amazon Reviewer Pauline says: Detective novel that is hard to put down once started and the suspense continued to the end of the book with a most unexpected twist. Forget "The Tunnel". This book will enthral you with a realistic background of police investigation and inventive plot. Looking forward to reading the next book "Field of Lies".
Summary
Exeter Crown Court - 1986 - a multimillion pound drugs trial. The blast from a powerful handgun brings a halt to proceedings. Three days and two hundred miles separate the finding of a mutilated corpse in a Staffordshire beauty spot - there seems no connection. Interesting police work and pathology establish a shocking and unexpected history to the corpse and then another body is discovered. Detective inspector Doug Taylor knows that plenty of long days lie ahead. Sinister characters from different walks of life emerge as tales of rape, murder and police corruption develop.
A vigilante chase crosses the North Sea. Peril and intrigue loiter at every corner as the struggle to determine the criminal mastermind's objectives intensifies with terrifying events in two different countries. Matters become all the more curious when a bizarre secret held by a cathedral and a church appear pivotal to the core of the affair. It is a secret surrounded by lies, a secret which stretches back decades and one which the main players will go to any lengths to obtain.

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