The new DCI Peach mystery ...Alfred Norbury is a learned man. He is never afraid to display his erudition, but he is generous in his encouragement of younger people. The people who assemble around him to form a reading club are also learned. Some of them are simply well-read, whilst others have formal qualifications which rival those of Norbury. But learning is no protection against violence. Murder arrives suddenly, brutally and unexpectedly. The investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Percy Peach and Detective Sergeant Northcott reveals several people with good reason to hate the victim. They range from the young man who was his latest protege to the two women forty years older whose lives were radically damaged by him a decade earlier. Peach tackles the case, and the people involved in it, with his normal ebullience. The solution when he arrives at it is both unexpected and moving.
- ISBN10 1847515487
- ISBN13 9781847515483
- Publish Date 26 April 2015 (first published 1 February 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English