The House of Dust (Quintilian Dalrymple Crime Novels) [Paperback]

'Hugely entertaining... engagingly imagined' (The Times on BODY POLITIC )

'First-rate crime fiction with an original twist' (Sunday Telegraph on THE BONE YARD )

'Johnston brings an intelligent perspective to the dark excitement of the thriller' (Nicholas Blincoe, Observer on WATER OF DEATH )

'This futuristic series is still refreshingly original and entertaining' (Sunday Telegraph on THE BLOOD TREE )

'Johnston's plotting is consummate and his characterisation deft. He is also a very funny political satirist...Very enjoyable' (Observer on THE HOUSE OF DUST )

'First-rate crime fiction with an original twist'

'Hugely entertaining... engagingly imagined'

'This futuristic series is still refreshingly original and entertaining'

'Johnston's plotting is consummate and his characterisation deft. He is also a very funny political satirist...Very enjoyable'

It’s April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent - a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. But at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot.

Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer. And a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford’s mysterious heart – the place known only as the House of Dust – to his home city.

Paul Johnston has written four previous highly-acclaimed crime novels, the first of which, BODY POLITIC, won the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger. He divides his time between a small Greek island and Scotland where he was born and grew up.