Maritime mystery novel
Murder on the Holigan Express, by Rob Little
This bawdy whodunnit by Rob Little – a former police officer and Merchant Navy electrician – adds to his collection of self-published fiction.
Murder on the Holigan Express starts as the lead character is intriguingly assigned an undercover investigation on a ferry with a 'rowdy militant crew' where the purser has died. Revealing any more of the plot could run into the realm of spoilers…
The author is keen to point out the characters in his novel bear no relation to anyone he met in the Merchant Navy, dead or alive, which is probably just as well.
Murder on the Holigan Express: It's a Ferry story
By Rob Little
Self-published, £5.95
ISBN: 979 83212 32057
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