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The Room of the Dead
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Description
A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery.
December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satin is having a birthday party, and a bookmark has been reported stolen. Inspector Betty Church – one of the few female officers on the force – is longing for something to get her teeth into...
When a bomb is dropped on Sackwater, it seems the war has finally reached them. But Betty can't stop Adolf, however hard she tries. So when a dead man is found on the beach, she concentrates on hunting an enemy much closer to home.
'Eccentric and entertaining with a nicely complex plot'Crime Review.
'A wonderfully gripping old-fashioned murder mystery' The Lady.
Product details
| Published | 09 Jan 2020 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781788546416 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | A Betty Church Mystery |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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I love this sort of book... A rival for M.C. Beaton, my favourite of all time'
Frost Magazine
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A clever and beautifully written tale of small-town wartime life with a good mystery – and a most unusual solution... The Room of the Dead is funny, amusing and surprising, and it will keep you guessing at a darker and more unnerving story'
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