Allan Jones

The Chinese Sailor (The Catrin Sayer Novels, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Chinese naval officer from a cruise ship goes missing while it visits the Welsh port of Holyhead... and a missing person investigation turns up nothing.

An international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three Russian paintings worth $2 million ... they disappear from the same ship, on the same cruise.

Four months later Jian Li Yeung, the younger sister of the missing sailor, transfers suddenly from university in Hong Kong to Bangor University, not that far from the point where her brother disappeared.

The Metropolitan Police Art Crime Unit, the ACU, wants to know why she is in the UK. Constable Catrin Sayer is a uniformed police officer working for the 'Met' and has applied to the ACU to take her out of drug squad work in Brixton. Coincidence and her Welsh background lead her to agree to go undercover to find out more.

This is the first Catrin Sayer full-length novel in a planned series of art-related mysteries. Sayer is twenty-four at the time; keen, ambitious, trying to balance her work as a police officer with her interests as an artist, a ceramic decorator. From her short-term undercover role with the Art Crime Unit to her assignment to a team trying to discover the fate of both the paintings and the missing sailor, she finds herself adjusting to new challenges, new relationships and the meaning of becoming a 'detective constable' at New Scotland Yard.

Please read also The Scottish Colourist, the second Catrin Sayer novel, (now available) and watch out for the next novel in the series, currently titled The Falmouth Model.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Allan Jones
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780991907212
• Artikelnr.: 52983618

Autorenporträt

I live in Ontario, Canada but was born and grew up in Merseyside, England. By profession a chemist, I worked for many years as a consultant on international chemical regulation, a role with a lot of international travel.
So far, I have written and published The Catrin Sayer Mysteries (10 books) covering the cases and career of a Welsh police officer working for the Metropolitan Police in London. It takes her from a rookie detective through to the rank of superintendent, and a range of criminal investigations including art crimes, scams and fraud, organized crime, undercover work and supervision of a major homicide investigation.
My current work is a trilogy set in Cumbria, UK with a quite different protagonist; a community police sergeant, Harriet Calder; a widow and a part-time Methodist preacher. Canons, the first novel, was published in 2019. The second, Compline, has just been released (Sept. 2023).