The Drowned Man
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Publisher Description
A retired Scotland Yard detective is lured back to work in "a series to follow particularly for Louise Penny fans and the Masterpiece Mystery set" (Library Journal).
Chief Insp. Peter Cammon is supposed to be retired, but he's reluctantly agreed to travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered colleague. And once he's involved, he can't resist delving into the oddities of the crime.
His fellow cop was brutally attacked, run over by a car, and then dumped into a canal—all seemingly linked to the theft of three letters from the American Civil War era, one of which may have been signed by John Wilkes Booth . . .
"Tightly plotted and featuring a lead character who keeps us glued to the page, the book should definitely suit readers looking for an intriguing lead character and a solid mystery." —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Whellams's busy second Peter Cammon mystery (after 2012's Walking into the Ocean), the apparently straightforward task of escorting a murdered colleague's body from Montreal to England proves anything but for the retired Scotland Yard inspector. The coroner's report asserts that John Carpenter drowned after he had already suffered fatal internal damage from being struck from behind by a car. The motive for the crime involves three letters of great historical value if authentic: one was allegedly written by John Wilkes Booth a few months before Lincoln's assassination; the others were written to Booth. These letters are missing, along with a beautiful woman with whom Carpenter was traveling. The cross-border action includes a brutal sexual assault (of questionable relevance), a suicide, the Quebec separatist movement, Montreal mobsters, the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, and cricket fixing. Whellams fails to tie these wide-ranging issues together satisfactorily.
