Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.
Humphry Knipe is a graduate of Rhodes University, South Africa. He is co-author of The Dominant Man (Delacorte 1972), a study of animal and human “pecking orders” which has been translated in five languages.
The Nero Prediction, a revolutionary re-evaluation of Rome’s notorious emperor, won the 2006 Independent Publishers “Best Historical Novel” award.
His most recent publication is Time Taxi, an illustrated book for children that makes learning about evolution fun.
Email: humknipe@gmail.com
Birth Place
Kimberley, South Africa
Accomplishments
Independent Publishers Book Awards: "Best Historical Fiction" for The Nero Prediction.