The Not Quite Perfect Murderer

Margaret Duffy author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Joffe Books

Published:29th Jul '21

Should be back in stock very soon

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A gripping mystery full of dark twists.

Twelve-year-old Damien 'Spike' Baker loves to climb up trees and walls to look in people's windows. But he makes a deadly mistake when he climbs up some rampant ivy on a large mansion. When his body is discovered on a building site, Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley offer to assist with the investigation. What did Damien see through the window?

A London gangster brings terror and murder to Bath, but is he about to meet his match in Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley?

Damien 'Spike' Baker is a young voyeur who loves to climb up trees, houses, walls . . . and look in people's windows. But when he climbs up some rampant ivy on a large house and peers through one of its windows, he makes a deadly mistake. What did he see?

Detective Chief Inspector James Carrick of Bath CID is dealing with a raid on a jeweller's shop. Then he breaks his leg and has the discovery of Damien's body on a building site near the River Avon to contend with. Fortunately his old friend, Patrick Gillard, now retired - almost - from the National Crime Agency, offers to assist with the investigation. Can Patrick and his wife and working partner, Ingrid Langley, catch an out-of-control psychopath intent on strangling everyone who gets in his way?

Readers who prize complex plotting and label-defying
protagonists will be pleased

* Booklist *
The pair's unusual background and complex personalities add interest * Kirkus Reviews *
Action-packed * Kirkus Reviews on Gillard's Sting *
Another strong entry in the Gillard & Langley series * Booklist on Stone Cold, Stone Dead *
Nonstop action and tangled clues * Kirkus Reviews on Dust to Dust *
A good mystery is a good mystery, and this is one * Publishers Weekly on Ashes to Ashes *
A great read-alike for those who enjoy other hard-boiled husband-and-wife teams, like Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro * Booklist on Ashes to Ashes<

ISBN: 9780727850614

Dimensions: 224mm x 145mm x 21mm

Weight: 405g

224 pages

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