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Synopsis:
From the celebrated author of The Other Half comes a fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in which things go missing: a fourteen-year-old girl and a multi-million-dollar pension fund.
Early one morning, a men’s rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing manufacturer walked off with a multi-million dollar corporate retirement fund and disappeared without a trace. Now, the discovery of this body has reopened that cold case.
Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp has his own evening at the theater upended by the discovery of a dead body just a few seats away. Two decades ago, Eliza Chapel, a fourteen-year-old student at a girls boarding school in Cornwall, disappeared in the middle of the night under dubious circumstances. A second body and a second cold case reopened.
As DI Caius Beauchamp—along with his associates Matt Chung and Amy Noakes—investigates these parallel missing persons cases, he finds himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting. This is yet another masterful mystery from Charlotte Vassell that is every bit as pointed as it is poignant.
As DI Caius Beauchamp—along with his associates Matt Chung and Amy Noakes—investigates these parallel missing persons cases, he finds himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting. This is yet another masterful mystery from Charlotte Vassell that is every bit as pointed as it is poignant.
Review:
This is the second book in the series, and I adored the first book, so I read this book with anticipation, and had to stop myself from reading it all in one sitting! Beauchamp is back with his team, and they are settled into a groove and while reading this book I kept picturing it as a Britbbox series starring Regé-Jean Page (though of course, in the books, he is a bit older, but nuances right? LOL). In this second book, people from the previous book come back into the sidelines of a case that they are working. Only 6 degrees of separation is about to come down to 2 degrees, when Beauchamp discovers the new love of his life is involved with all the parties involved. Beauchamp and his team do a rush to try to solve the case before he is compromised and pulled off the case. But his morals and ethics will be sorely tried when his family's past also becomes involved. A spider's web of deceit with domino effects to the future, this is a rapid read, for the reader. It can be read as a stand alone as well.
About the Author:
CHARLOTTE VASSELL is a British writer living near London. She studied history at the University of Liverpool and Art History at SOAS, University of London, before training as an actor. She has also worked in advertising, executive search, and as a purveyor of silk top hats.
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