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by Alison Bruce
Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.
"[An] assured debut ... By the end, readers will be flipping back to the beginning to suss out those clues that they may have missed." - Publishers Weekly.
"Starred Review. This debut mystery by a British nonfiction crime writer accelerates like a train speeding to its destination." - Library Journal.
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Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, Cambridgeshire Murders and The Billingtons, Death in the Family.
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