# Betrayals

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- Book: [Betrayals](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-palliser/betrayals) ([Betrayals.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-palliser/betrayals.md))
- Authors: [Charles Palliser](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-palliser)
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-749-3
- Published: 2015-04-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday Times A colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder. Ten apparently separate stories are ingeniously drawn together to form variations on a single theme - obsession with the success of a rival and the plotting of his death. But obsession is an unstable motive for murder, and the game of revenge can turn very sour . . . Betrayals is an ingenious, mesmerising puzzle, intricately pieced together by a master of the art.