by Susan Steggall (2026)
ISBN: 978-0-9874944-7-4 (pbk); 978-0-9874944-8-1 (eBook)
Apolline, a lawyer, and her husband, Parry, an art provenance expert, have been enlisted by Commissaire Léon Favre (head of the gendarmerie in Annecy, France) to help solve the disappearance of a valuable bronze sculpture. Network of Spiders follows Apolline and Parry as they uncover a web of intrigue involving eco-activism, herbicides, electronic tracking devices, bronze-age treasure and a reclusive museum owner. Exacerbated by climate change, a super storm sweeps across the Franco-Swiss Alps, pushes them to their physical limits in a race against time to find not only the sculpture but also a cache of Celtic artefacts.
Network of Spiders reprises characters who appear in the art mysteries, It Happened Tomorrow (2013) and ‘Tis the Doing Not the Deed (2018).