A song for the brokenhearted / William Shaw.
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TextSeries: Shaw, William, Breen and Tozer mystery ; Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First North American editionDescription: 403 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316246910
- 0316246913
- Book of scars
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Main Library | Mystery | Shaw, William | BT 3 | Available | Liquid stain on front page | 33111008349470 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The earthshaking decade of the 1960s comes to a sweeping and dangerous close, as William Shaw's detective duo battle the most powerful members of London society.
After being wounded in the line of duty, Detective Sergeant Breen recuperates on the family farm of his former partner, Helen Tozer. To fill the long and empty hours, he reviews the open case file for a murder that has haunted Helen for years: that of her younger sister. Breen discovers that the teenage victim had been having a secret affair with James Fletchet, the son of an affluent local landowner, celebrated for his service in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising.
Breen and Tozer return to London's Criminal Investigation Division, where their questions about Fletchet's past are met with resistance and suspicion. The deeper they probe, the more people they implicate in their investigation. New Scotland Yard doesn't look kindly upon breaking rank, and it's only a matter of time before Breen and Tozer make themselves a target.
Shaw's stirring, heartfelt and diabolically plotted mystery series is everything a reader looks for: enveloping, invigorating, and wonderfully entertaining.
"Originally published in Great Britain as A Book of Scars by Quercus, June 2015"--Title page verso.
The earthshaking year of 1968 comes to a sweeping and dangerous close as Detectives Breen and Tozer battle the most powerful members of London society in their probe into a case going back years--the murder of Tozer's younger sister.
1969. Wounded in the line of duty, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is recuperating on the family farm of his former partner, Helen Tozer. To fill the time he reviews the 1964 open case of the murder of Tozer's teenage sister. Was she having an affair with the son of an affluent landowner? Returning to London's Criminal Investigation Division he continues to dig into the case-- and soon Breen and Tozer are targets themselves.