Constable crime
4 total works
When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and nearby cottage, identification proves impossible and the press and police dub her the 'Mystery Woman'. No progress is made in the case until a second murder takes place - the bursar of a public school, currently involved in a controversy over a proposed entrance to the school, is found murdered at his desk. Temporarily unemployed ex-student, Celo Atkins, who will do anything to avoid taking the secretarial job her mothers arranged for her, also comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source, and ultimately finds herself involved in the investigation. Her help along with the investigation into the death of the bursar enables DS Gil mayo and his assistant, Abigail Moon, to uncover a trail that eventually leads to the true identity of the Mystery Woman and to the unexpected solution of the two seemingly unrelated murders.
A family with secrets - but is murder one of them? A woman's body is found in a pool on the estate of an award-winning house and the finger of suspicion points at three brothers: one who is the house's designer, one who had adopted the dead woman as a small child, and the third, an international cello soloist. All three men are somehow connected to the victim - and then her nine-year-old son is abducted...
DI Tom Richmond's superiors are perturbed by his decision to transfer back to Yorkshire. After all, his daughter was murdered there, and her mother confessed to the killing. Is this Richmond's attempt to make peace with the past or does he have ideas about reopening a bungled investigation?