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  • The Detective's Daughter, Book 8
  • Written by: Lesley Thomson
  • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
  • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. From the number-one best-selling author of The Detective's Daughter.

London, 1940. 

A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she's another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist Aleck Northcote proves she was strangled and placed at the scene. But Northcote himself has something to hide. And when his past catches up with him, he, too, is murdered. 

Tewkesbury, 2020. 

Beneath the vast stone arches of Tewkesbury Abbey, a man has been fatally stabbed. He is Roddy March, an investigative journalist for a podcast series uncovering miscarriages of justice. He was looking into the murder of police pathologist Dr Aleck Northcote - and was certain he had uncovered Northcote's real killer. 

Stella Darnell used to run a detective agency alongside her cleaning business. She's moved to Tewkesbury to escape from death, not to court it - but Roddy died in her arms, and Stella is someone impelled to root out evil when she finds it. Now she is determined to hunt down Roddy's killer - but then she finds another body....
©2021 Lesley Thomson (P)2021 Head of Zeus
Private Investigators Women Sleuths Suspense Crime Fiction
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Pathological crimes

Really enjoyed the story, although the beginning was slow. However persistence paid off as characters, events of wartime London were added. Maple, the long ago murder victim, and her family added so much detail, past and present, to the narrative. Towards the final chapters, I found it hard to stop listening to the satisfying finale.

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