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Candles for the Dead (Worldwide Library Mysteries) Book
Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget returns for a third tale of murder in rural England. In Candles for The Dead, Bank worker Beth Smallwood is found battered to death with a candlestick at a church altar. Paget's investigation reveals a number of suspects, all with the motive and the means: her son Lenny, for whom she had been embezzling money; Beth's boss, Mr Gresham, who brutally raped her prior to her death; and Harry Beecham, the colleague made redundant by Beth's promotion. Current vogue with this genre is to have the detective be a maelstrom of emotional crises and neuroses, with the mystery taking a back seat. So, it is vastly refreshing to have Frank Smith present us with a good old-fashioned labyrinthine whodunit. True, Paget has to deal with the anniversary of his wife's … read more...
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