Monday, February 3, 2014

Embroidering Shrouds

Leek has had a recent spate of attacks on elderly people.  DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are unsure if it is a gang or an individual doing these heinous crimes because of the information provided by the victims.  The intrusions have turned increasingly violent until a murder occurs.

Piercy sets up a murder room and with her team review the past attacks up to the current murder.   Evidence is scant.  However, the great-nephew seemed to know the victim well, but would he kill her?  Also, the milkman who found her had previously found another elderly victim who had survived an attack.  Is he responsible?

When evidence from one of the previous attacks is found in the last victim's home with her fingerprints on it, Piercy and Korpanski need to re-think.  Piercy wonders if the attacks were separate, not gang related as previously thought, and did one even really occur?  New suspects are now considered.

Author Priscilla Masters provides a few suspects for the reader to consider, however throws a completely unexpected conclusion at the reader.  A good, short read.

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