Murder in Friday Street (Marsh and Daughter, #2)

by Amy Myers

The second book in a new mystery series from a popular library author. When eighteen-year-old Alice Winters is found murdered near a ruined medieval tower just outside the remote village of Friday Street on the Kentish downs, her boyfriend Jake is charged. That evening the haunting melody of the Friday Street tune is heard which, according to village tradition, is played whenever there has been a miscarriage of justice. The case arouses the interest of Peter and Georgia Marsh, the father and daughter team who specialise in cases where the past has reached out to touch the present. And Friday Street had been the scene of a notorious murder in 1968, when the famous rock singer Fanny Star returned to the village of her birth only to be murdered. Adam Jones, her singing partner, was convicted of the murder. Had the tune been heard then too? Had Adam been wrongly convicted? Peter and Georgia set out to discover the secrets held by the apparently peaceful village - but their first obstacle is to break the silence kept by Friday Street, anxious to protect its own.

• ISBN10: 0727863010
• ISBN13: 9780727863010
• Publish Date: 28 October 2005
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 May 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Severn House Publishers Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Murder in Friday Street is the second book in the Marsh & Daughter mystery series by Amy Myers. Released 18th July, 2018 by Endeavour Media, it's 246 pages and available in ebook and hardback formats.

The series features a wheelchair bound former policeman and his daughter who write 'real crime' accounts of cold cases they research. This particular book has them researching a very cold case which may have a tie in with a modern murder in the same village (Friday Street is the name of the village).

The writing is very solid. The author is competent and prolific and I enjoyed the actual writing and dialogue. My problems came from the other aspects of the book. I found the plotting slow and convoluted. Keeping track of the secondary characters was very difficult and the plot twists were more confusing than enlightening. There were no 'aha' moments. I didn't really feel much invested in the story, and that's a shame because it really is very well written. The denouement wasn't at all unexpected but I had hopes that the action wouldn't be as straightforward as it had been foreshadowed (it was).

I believe that fans of modern amateur sleuth mysteries, especially ones dealing with the seething repressed undercurrents apparently rife in rural villages in England, might find something here. Possibly worth noting, this book (and the series) is included in the Kindle Unlimited library and thus available to KU subscribers to borrow for free.

Three stars (mostly for the actual writing).

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes