Will the gruesome murder of a prime suspect lead to the true killer?

June 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Detective John Rankin is called into investigate a string of murders not knowing that the latest victim is a good friend of his. All victims have had their throat slashed and no evidence is found at the crime scenes.

   They are dubbed the Chinatown murders as the only link they can find are all the victims were known to the powerful Wong Family.

   When a jockey goes missing soon after but no body is found could he be the latest victim....

   Rankin is given new partner to help Detective Stephanie Seymour as he describes as 'a bloody copper with lipstick' and they pair together in the hunt to solve the murders and stop the killings.

   In the meantime Rankin's race horse 'Scottish Soldier' is being groomed for the big two-year-old cup when it too is targeted along with his best friend jockey JJ Manion. When their main suspect is murdered in the same gruesome manner they must pool all their resources to find the true killer.

John Higgins was born in Neilston, Scotland. He got his first taste for writing after winning an award for a short story at school.  His first passion at that age was football, but it was after school that he enjoyed the most when he was learning to ride horses.

Soon after this his family moved to Australia. Living at Sydney’s eastern suburb of Randwick, he started an apprenticeship as a jockey – a career where he enjoyed considerable success over three decades.

Forced to take time off after a bad race fall resulting in a broken leg, he decided to turn his hand to something different. Recalling his enjoyment of writing, he enrolled in a journalism course, which resulted in his first published novel, A Ride with Crime (Eloquent N.Y. 2009). He writes now from his Toongabbie home in Sydney.

'Scottish Soldier – the killings' by John Higgins ISBN: 978-1-921731-53-2 RRP $28.95 Fiction - thriller

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