DI Charlie Priest is on his way in when he receives a call from
dispatch. He finds that four swans have been brutally murdered in
Heckley Park. Shortly after getting in to work, he is called out to a
murder scene. The victim is a financial advisor who had recently gone
bankrupt.
Later after the fraud squad have gone through the
victim's computer in search of potential murderers, and after receiving
the pathologist's report, Priest finds that he is on a different track
entirely. The victim had been converting investors' money into
diamonds. Further information Priest gets points to a missing gold
bullion shipment. How are they tied together? By drug money being
laundered?
Another murder of a young woman throws Priest for a
loop. He had arranged to meet her, only to arrive at her house to find
her dead. Things get worse when his car is vandalised and his
girlfriend is threatened. Priest has a couple of suspects in his mind,
it is just a matter of proving which one it is.
Once again,
author Stuart Pawson has written an intriguing murder mystery. I also
like the way that Pawson throws in a bit of comic relief from
time-to-time. A good read.
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