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Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it.
Synopsis:
The last thing DS Stephanie Johnson and DS Andy Carter expected during their much-needed canal holiday was a murder. When retired folk musician Annie Shipton is found stabbed through the neck at the helm of her barge, the couple can’t help investigating the seemingly impossible crime. Nobody else boarded Annie’s boat—so how was she killed from behind?
With the method a perplexing mystery, DCI Oldroyd is summoned from Harrogate, and it’s not long before the detectives have a long list of potential suspects with a motive to want Annie dead. There’s the young cyclist she argued with over access to the towpath, an ambitious and arrogant local developer she clashed with repeatedly, an estranged husband…and more than a few lingering issues with her former bandmates, most of whom live along the canal.
When a second murder sends shockwaves through the community, the locals start talking about a curse on the waterway. It seems the killer will go to any lengths to avoid detection. But can Oldroyd hunt them down before someone else becomes the next target?
Review
This is book 10 in the series, and it starts off with the focus on Stephanie and Andi and their vacation, when murder suddenly arrives literally at their side. When one of their old teams shows up to be the officer in charge, it feels like old times, and the only thing missing is Oldroyd. With a murder that seems to have no cause, it's not too soon, before he's seconded over to the scene to help solve it. When a second murder occurs, everyone realizes it was not as simple as they were thinking and something else is at play. Interesting tactic by the other to remove the team from their local, but still have them work together- it livens up the book and makes things fresh. Fans will love this book, and newcomers will be taken with how the team work together and the many twists and turns!
About the Author
John R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire’s diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working (slowly!) on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.
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