A Devious Mind: A Dusty Kent Mystery

Everyone knows Marcia Hamilton was murdered by one of her four adult children. But which one?

It was a silent death. One blow to her head was all it took.

The killer struck Marcia Hamilton, a sixty-year-old grandmother, from behind. Marcia’s status as a distinguished author could not save her. The killer rolled her body, ’like a piece of discarded junk’, down into a gully where it remained for almost two weeks.

This murder is the most heinous crime imaginable: the crime of matricide. Dusty Kent is sure of that. But which of Marcia’s offspring would be capable of such a deed?

Dusty’s determination and passion for justice is fuelled by a personal connection through her own family tragedy. She will stop at nothing to catch this ruthless killer. But can she do it before another member of the family dies?

Sure to delight fans of crime thrillers and mystery. If you like Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George, Anne Cleeves or P.D. James you must read A Devious Mind.

BRIGID GEORGE grew up in a small Australian town called Orbost in the state of Victoria. She spent her childhood chasing snakes and lizards down hollow logs, playing Hansel and Gretel in the bush with her brothers, climbing trees, searching the local rubbish tip for books to read and generally behaving like a feral child. To avoid her boisterous brothers she often escaped into the hayshed with a book. Hours and hours of reading from an early age trained her for life as a writer. In primary school her teachers called her ’the one with the Enid Blyton touch’. Her love of reading murder mysteries as an adult has now evolved into a love of writing them. As a teenager she had short stories published in one of Australia’s national magazines, New Idea. Since then she has won several awards for her stories which have also been published in anthologies. Brigid still lives in the state of Victoria but is now in the capital city of Melbourne where her life is fertile with friends.