THE BLURB
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Published by Urbane Publications
About the Author
Guy Fraser-Sampson is an established writer best known for his series of ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels which have been featured on BBC Radio 4 and optioned by BBC television.
Originally a corporate lawyer, he currently teaches at Cass Business School and acts as a board advisor to high growth companies.
MY REVIEW
This is the second book in the series of the Hampstead Murders and I have to admit to having not read the first - Death in Profile - but will definitely be getting hold of a copy after being captivated by the characters and setting in this classy crime novel!
We begin with a body found in a study with a truncheon used as a murder weapon - sounds like a game of Cluedo! - at a local museum and with so few witnesses or visitors it seems that the investigation may be a fairly simple one for those officers involved. But when they later discover a body in a suitcase, of someone murdered many years ago, surely they can't be linked? But with good old fashioned police work it soon transpires that there is more to these deaths than meets the eye, and it is fascinating to watch the various lines of enquiry and research that the officers put in to uncover the truth.
This is a book full of strong characters and a clever plot and I found myself completely stumped at times trying to work out just who was involved and who was hiding more than they should be! It did make a nice change not to be confronted with scenes of gore or torture that has been quite high in many crime books recently, so just to focus on the classic 'whodunnit' was an extremely enjoyable experience and I now look forward to catching up with book one before book three, A Whiff of Cyanide, is released in the Summer of 2017
We begin with a body found in a study with a truncheon used as a murder weapon - sounds like a game of Cluedo! - at a local museum and with so few witnesses or visitors it seems that the investigation may be a fairly simple one for those officers involved. But when they later discover a body in a suitcase, of someone murdered many years ago, surely they can't be linked? But with good old fashioned police work it soon transpires that there is more to these deaths than meets the eye, and it is fascinating to watch the various lines of enquiry and research that the officers put in to uncover the truth.
This is a book full of strong characters and a clever plot and I found myself completely stumped at times trying to work out just who was involved and who was hiding more than they should be! It did make a nice change not to be confronted with scenes of gore or torture that has been quite high in many crime books recently, so just to focus on the classic 'whodunnit' was an extremely enjoyable experience and I now look forward to catching up with book one before book three, A Whiff of Cyanide, is released in the Summer of 2017
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