Riddle of the Golden River (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #12) / Inspector Winwood Mysteries (ePub)
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On his first day back after his holiday Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood gets the report of a dead body found on the bridge over the Rutter river. In the early hours of the next morning a body is thrown against the front doors of the Fleetwood Arms Hotel stabbed through the heart in the same way as the first victim. Things go from bad to worse as a third body is found crushed between the riverbank and a moored up houseboat. The only connection is that all three have been similarly killed with a long, sharp blade which leads his newly appointed Chief Superintendent Diane Bliss to ask if there is a serial killer at loose. Steve is unable to confirm this one way or another but he is sure that he is not going to enjoy a new working relationship with his senior officer who starts by asking him to smarten himself up. The new Chief Constable is not so interested in dead bodies in Rutherford as to a fraud that has caught up senior police officers and minor politicians. Despite Steve's protestations that this is a case for the Fraud Squad he is assigned the case and only given some bare clues as to the nature of the fraud which are three names; Peru, Alberto Pereira and Pactolus. The best clue he has is a memory stick from the second victim's possessions which he hands to Detective Sergeant Miles Davis, more at home with spreadsheets than himself. A search of the last victim's home brings forward a key to solving the riddle set by the Chief Constable. Steve's mind is elsewhere. He is thinking about retirement. For the second time. The world has changed since he joined the force. His instinct tells him that the three dead bodies and the fraud case are connected. It is fortunate that he has no expertise in spreadsheets but Davis has, so between old fashioned policing and modern technology they solve both the riddle and the identity of the murderer.
This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.
John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.
He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords
John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.
- Autor: John Barber
- 2023, Englisch
- Verlag: John Barber
- ISBN-10: 820151842X
- ISBN-13: 9798201518424
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2023
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