The Lost Piece

by David Imrie

Overview

Joel just wants to qualify as an architect and get free from the gnawing pressure of student debt. This seems a distant dream, until he steals a bejewelled square of elaborate ironwood from an unearthed corpse.
In the far north of Scotland, local veterinarian Nat possesses an heirloom from her Russian aristocrat ancestor: a beautifully-crafted jigsaw puzzle missing its centre.
Combine their pieces and the two can share a quarter-million-pound windfall.
But completing the puzzle fulfils another purpose. Something from the worst depths of the occult.

Some things should never be put together...

A mystery thriller with a dash of occult, 'The Lost Piece' is the first novel by literary editor David Imrie.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186168836
Publisher:	David Stuart Robertson Imrie
Publication date:	07/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	852 KB

About the Author

David is a British author and literary editor who lives in Galicia (northern Spain). The Lost Piece (1st July 2024) is his first novel, to be followed by Ghosts (1st October 2024).

Born in Oxford in 1973, during his childhood David's family moved first to Dorset and then to Thurso in Caithness, where he lived between ages 10 and 18 and went to school.

He read psychology at Oxford University, an arbitrary choice of subject made hastily at 17 and perhaps something of a pattern. After a few years in psychiatry research and Manchester, David stumbled into IT in search of a way out. He ended up in software integration and error management, and for 3 months in 2005 knew of a simple way to kill every Nokia Series 40 colour phone in the world.

David’s (very 2000s) plan behind returning part-time to university to study architectural technology was to set up in Galicia restoring old farmhouses for foreign buyers. When Nokia death-spiralled in 2012 he went for it. Just as it was getting going, Brexit nobbled the whole idea.

In 2017, getting kind of desperate, David asked a publisher acquaintance if he needed any proof reading doing. “If you want, but it’s awfully dull stuff,” came the reply. “Why not give editing a bash?” So he did, and it was a fit.

Soon, unsurprisingly, he started itching to try a bit of writing himself.

David lives happily with his wife Anna and their two sons near the town of Pontedeume. On lucky days he spots dolphins from his study window.