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A diabolical tale of retribution cast against the greatest debate of its time.Darwin's theory of evolution is the fascinating background for this tragic story of seemingly unrelated events.Award-winning author Lyn Squire has done it again with an extraordinary follow-up to Immortalised to Death. Set in Victorian England amidst the furor triggered by Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory, Fatally Inferior plunges Dunston Burnett, the series' unassuming but sometimes insightful amateur sleuth, into a cauldron churning with secrets and lies. An abduction -- the victim mysteriously vanishing from a locked-tight country house.A birth -- the newborn torn from its mother's arms. These seemingly independent incidents converge in a vile act of vengeance: a hellish torture for the victim; the perfect revenge for the perpetrator. Will Dunston ever be able to expose the heart of this dark, confounding mystery?

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""If you're in the market for a good, old-fashioned mystery and you enjoy traveling to different places and different times, you won't do better than Lyn Squire's latest, Fatally Inferior. Squire has gifted us with a fast-paced, historical crime novel set in England smack in the middle of the Victorian Age... [He] draws us into a mystery filled with enough twists and turns that keeps us turning the pages."" --Charles Salzberg, 3-time Shamus Award nominee and author of Second Story Man and Man on the Run. ""Fatally Inferior is a richly layered novel set firmly in 19th Century England with complex and disparate characters that weave their way through a twisting plot of simmering angst, despair, and rage. Lyn Squire has the ability to bring the time, place, and people to life on the pages, creating a lush tapestry for the reader to tromp through as if they were perusing Theatreland of the West End of London... Fatally Inferior will leave you spent and exhausted and is not to be missed. Read the book."" --Matt Cost, award winning author of sixteen histories and mysteries, including the Mainely Mysteries, the Clay Wolfe Trap Mysteries, and the Brooklyn 8 Ballo Mysteries. ""Lyn Squire continues his highly original Dunston Burnett mystery series with a tale worthy of Willkie Collins himself... Beautifully written and populated with some great characters, Fatally Inferior is a wonderful read!"" - Mark Ellis, author of the acclaimed Frank Merlin London wartime detective series. ""Fatally Inferior sure packs a wallop. No, two, no, half a dozen! Be ready for Dickensian hard hitting truths, vicious criminals, and fiendish plots."" - Nev March, award winning author of Murder in Old Bombay, NY chapter chair of Mystery Writers of America. ""A layered and fast-paced mystery."" - Kirkus Review ""Lyn Squire creates once again an intriguing tale of murder, deceit, and social injustice... Nothing is really as it originally seems... each [main]character uncovers more and more clues that eventually determine the ultimate shocking truth that I have to admit I didn't see coming at all.""- Mystery Sequels

Author Information

LYN SQUIRE was born in Cardiff, South Wales. During a twenty-five-year career at the World Bank, he published over thirty articles and several books within his area of expertise, and was lead author for World Development Report, 1990, which introduced the metric - a dollar a day - that is still used to measure poverty worldwide. Lyn was also the founding president of the Global Development Network, an organization dedicated to supporting promising scholars from the developing world. He now devotes his time to writing. His debut novel, Immortalised to Death, published by Level Best Books in September 2023, introduced Dunston Burnett, a non-conventional amateur detective. It was a First Place Category Winner in the Mystery and Mayhem Division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Dunston's adventures continue in Fatally Inferior and The Séance of Murder, the second and third books in The Dunston Burnett Trilogy. Lyn lives in Virginia with his wife and two dogs.

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