A Question of Trust

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A witty, fast-paced thriller with a dash of mathematics and a large dose of danger

Life is not going smoothly for Tom Winscombe. His girlfriend Dorothy has vanished, taking with her all the equipment and money of the company she ran with her friend Ali. Now Tom and Ali are forced to eke out an awkward shared bedsit existence while they try to work out what she is up to.

Meanwhile, Tom has other things on his mind, including how to untangle his father from a cryptocurrency scam, how to break into a hospital in order to interrogate an old acquaintance and what is the significance of the messages he's been receiving from Rufus Fairbanks's LinkedIn account.

Tom and Ali's investigations lead them in a host of unexpected and frankly dangerous directions, involving a pet python, an offshore stag do and an improbable application of the Fibonacci sequence. But at the end of it all, will they find Dorothy - and will she ever be able to explain just exactly what is going on

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Praise for Jonathan Pinnock:

Lovely stuffIan Rankin

'Aseries ofhumorous, riotous mathematical mysteries'David Nicholls

He makesfunny and self-deprecating companyThe Herald

Jonathan Pinnockwrites compelling taleswith a deliciously wicked glint in his eyeIan Skillicorn, National Short Story Week

Jonathan Pinnock isRoald Dahls natural successorVanessa Gebbie

Funny, clever, and sometimes brilliantly daft.A comedy that I am sure would have made Pythagoras, Archimedes and Douglas Adams all laugh out loudScott Pack onThe Truth About Archie and Pye

Author Bio

Jonathan Pinnock is the author of the novel Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens (Proxima, 2011), the short story collections Dot Dash (Salt, 2012) and Dip Flash (Cultured Llama, 2018), the bio-historico-musicological-memoir thing Take It Cool(Two Ravens Press, 2014) and the poetry collection Love and Loss and Other Important Stuff (Silhouette Press, 2017). He was born in Bedford and studied Mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge, before going on to pursue a moderately successful career in software development. He also has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. He is married with two slightly grown-up children and now lives in Somerset, where he should have moved to a long time ago.