Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Dungeon House

Les Bryant, a retired detective, has just informed the cold case team of DCI Hannah Scarlett, and DC Maggie Eyre of the disappearance of a fifteen year old girl, who has a connection to a murder-suicide that had occurred 20 years ago.  She is the second girl to go missing recently.  The other girl also had an indirect connection to the original murder-suicide

Scarlett remembers that her former mentor, Ben Kind, had felt that the case was not a true murder-suicide.  Why would a man kill the daughter he adored?  As Scarlett works her investigation into the cold case, she comes up with information that a bald person was seen running from the scene.  Could it have been a woman?

Evidence unearthed about the original case leads Scarlett and Bryant to find information about the current case of the missing girl.  Unfortunately a woman they want to speak to has also disappeared.  It is an offhand remark by Scarlett's boyfriend, historian Daniel Kind, that leads her and Bryant to what turns out to be a shocking conclusion.

Author Martin Edwards has written a real page turner.  The tension mounts with each page read.  Definitely hard to put down.

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