Enter the baroque world of Dr Felix Culpepper…
“…rarely does an author have so fresh and lush a voice…”
When there are high crimes to be covered up, mysteries to be wrapped up in enigmas, or a murderer to be liquidated - literally - there is only one man in England who can be trusted with the task: Felix Culpepper, tutor in Classics at St Wygfortis College, Cambridge, and assassin-at-large for the British Establishment. With an intellectual vanity that rivals Holmes, more self-esteem than Bond and a blood-steeped amorality that out-Ripleys Hannibal Lector, Culpepper is the ideal hero for our debased days. And only in his student, side-kick (and pending Nemesis) Margot ffontaines, does he meet his match.
quintember
In a college of misfits, oddballs and psychopaths, Dr Felix Culpepper finds perfect camouflage for his fast-developing career as amoral assassin and whimsical equaliser. Offering an unusual education in chicanery and violence to a selection of his more privileged students, and prepared to take breath-taking risks to stave off the pangs of ennui, his path is strewn with death and destruction. But when his chief minion, the Honourable Lady Margot ffontaines, decides to break free and set up her own secret society, Felix may have met his match.
parricide
‘Death meets us everywhere…’. Or so it seems to Felix, as he journeys from the Scottish Highlands to the People’s Republic of Akinda, to the bodies buried in his own Cambridge college. Throughout, he shows an unexpected penchant for guns, drugs and esoteric methods of murder - all to save himself from the drudgery of cramming Latin into the privileged yet empty skulls of the dregs of Britain's aristocracy.
this lower world
Felix takes a break from his unofficial role as assassin of choice to the British Establishment to right some wrongs and eliminate some rival killers on his own account. From New York to Venice, he cheerfully takes on the international aristocracy of murder. But then, amid the fragrant mellowness of England's heartwoods, he faces a more disturbing - and violent - moral dilemma than ever before.
