Ian Smith

Susan is flat broke and has nowhere to go. The recommendation by a friend that she could earn money by being some kind of a servant for four weeks seemed ideal - but the reality was far more than she could ever imagine. Joseph Todd does not want a 'servant', he wants a 'slave' and is only too pleased to take on the innocent,...

A NovelA rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby a Nobel Prizewinning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . . The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally...