Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, there's the young woman's body which has been discovered in the River Alm. And then there's the mysterious break-in at the Berebury Nursing Home. To be precise, it's Josephine Short's room at the nursing home that's been entered, although nothing seems to be missing. What could the intruder have been after? It becomes apparent to Sloan and Crosby that the two cases are connected—but who can the killer be?
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March 8, 2011 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780792775096
- File size: 210585 KB
- Duration: 07:18:43
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- English
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DI Sloan and DC Crosby have a unique relationship. They're total opposites, and observing them work together is amusing and fascinating. In an English village there's been a nursing home death, and a young woman has drowned. Are the deaths related? Were they natural--or murders? Narrator Ric Jerrom keeps the story on pace with its diverse characters, giving Sloan and Crosby the greatest distinction. Crosby is hilarious, though not always by intention, and Sloane is a perfect counterpoint. Several subplots add interest to the story. A great slice of contemporary village life. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from December 20, 2010
In British veteran Aird's brilliantly sardonic 23rd fair-play whodunit featuring Calleshire County Det. Insp. C.D. Sloan and Sloan's sidekick, Detective Constable Crosby (after 2008's Losing Ground), Sloan starts with a relatively benign inquiry. The matron of the Berebury Nursing Home suspects that the room of a recently deceased resident, Josephine Short, was burglarized, but she can't be sure that anything was actually taken. Short left a sizable estate, but few survivors. The wife of her great-nephew, who didn't actually know her, made the funeral arrangements, and her only other blood relation is a grandson of whose existence other family members were unaware. The mystery of the possible theft may be linked to a 24-year-old woman, whose corpse, bearing bruises around the throat, a fisherman found floating Ophelia-like in the River Alm. Fans of Peter Lovesey's Victorian-era Sergeant Cribb novels should find Sloan a fitting modern-day counterpart.
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