The Silent House of Sleep: The First Dr Jack Cuthbert Mystery

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**Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize**

Death is a lonely business . . .

No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen. But Cuthbert is a man who lives with secrets, and he still battles demons brought back from the trenches.

When not one but two corpses are discovered in a London park in 1929, Cuthbert must use every tool at his disposal to solve the mystery of their deaths. In the end, the horrifying truth is more shocking than even he could have imagined.

Reviews

'Heartbreaking and harrowing in equal measure. Dr Jack Cuthbert is a brilliant, damaged genius youll want to follow to hell and back'

-- Pauline McLean, BBC Scotland Arts Correspondent

'We liked that Allan was trying to take the crime novel to new and interesting places. The central character perfectly expresses the damage of both the period and his environment, and the authors pathology background was skilfully deployed in this highly original thriller'

-- Tariq Ashkanani, author and Bloody Scotland judge

'Deliciously dark, vividly visceral, heartbreakingly harrowing'

-- Sharon Bairden

'I loved this mystery, slow burning and gripping. Theres a sense of doom, theres a complex and damaged main character . . . vivid and well researched life of LGBT people and the medical procedures'

* Scrapping & Playing blog *

'A fascinating yet gritty historical mystery with complex and compelling characters'

* Ljwritesandreviews *

'Excellently paced and full of tension'

* BooksbyBindu.com *

Author Bio

Allan Gaw studied medicine at Glasgow University and trained as a pathologist. Having worked in the NHS and universities in the UK and the US, he took early retirement and now devotes his time to writing. His published non-fiction works include medical textbooks and magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.