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Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Cambridge, loveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers, accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, investigates the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel ; a case of arson at a glamour photographer's studio; and a poisoning in the middle of a crucial game of cricket.
Author
Series
Nighthawk (Jim Kelly) volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout The Great Darkness covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow 'nighthawks'...
Author
Series
Nighthawk (Jim Kelly) volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman,...
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