A case shrouded in secrets.
It’s just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley’s Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stocking wound tight round his throat.
A festive mystery for one and all.
Hundreds of pairs of stockings, in neat cellophane bags, soon wash up on the shore. A blizzard cuts off Grasby and Juggers from help, and the local innkeeper is murdered. Any remaining Christmas cheer goes up in smoke as the villagers refuse to talk, leaving the two detectives chasing false leads in the snow.
A winter wonderland with no escape.
To make matters worse, Grasby can’t stop thinking about stockings. Why does everyone seem to be enjoying strangely high standards of hosiery, even beneath their oilskins? Who is the sinister bespectacled man snooping around their hotel? And how can they solve the murder when everyone in the village is a suspect?
I really enjoyed this read, it was great to be back with Inspector Grasby solving another crime. I love the way that it is written from his old case notes. He doesn’t seem to have changed from the first book which is a good thing.
In this he’s on a case with Superintendent Juggers and at times the two of them had me laughing out loud. Sometimes at one of them, others at both of them. It’s the things that they say as-well as do that creased me up.
The superintendent knows more about what’s going on than Grasby and is keeping him somewhat in the dark, for what reason I’m unsure but it makes for good reading! There’s murders and mysteries, who is behind it all? As they are unraveling it, there is more than it first seemed going on in this quaint little fishing village.
I thought the supporting characters were well written and it was comical when Grasby’s father appeared with his lady friend, some great scenes ensued with them too!! As well as humour, there is tension in the book as you don’t know what’s going to happen and Grasby & Juggers seem to find themselves in some precarious places at times!
Really well written and a read that I thoroughly enjoyed, I didn’t want it to end! You can grab a copy here #Aff (If you buy a copy through this link I get a teeny commission of the sale from Amazon)
Huge Thanks to Random Things Tours, Denzil Meyrick and Bantam Books UK for my place on the blog tour.
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