This is a story called "The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds". It was first published in 1984, in KNAVE and was my third published short story. It was reprinted in 1993 ANGELS AND VISITATIONS (although I didn't put it into Smoke and Mirrors) and...
A stunning and original debut crime thriller starring Harry Kent, a police surgeon who uncovers a shocking conspiracy after a hostage situation goes wrong.
Dr Harry Kent likes to keep busy: juggling hospital duties with his work as a police surgeon...
"Just when you think you�ve nailed it, Pinborough pulls the rug out from underneath you." - Sam Baker
"A dark, electrifying page-turner with a corker of an ending." - Harlan Coben
"Sarah Pinborough is a literary chameleon of astonishing power...
A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally "come into her own." When she brings her new...
A psychological thriller about the murder of a teenage girl, from the author of Lacy Eye.
On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been...