Too Many Murders
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Beschreibung des Verlags
A thrilling novel from the author of The Thorn Birds
One day,
one city,
twelve murders.
The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico walks into the prestigious Chubb University halls to be greeted by a limp corpse clamped in a bear trap, all traces of life drained from it. And this is just the beginning. Twelve murders have taken place in one day and suddenly Carmine has more pressing matters on his hands than finding a name for his newborn son.
Supported by his detective sergeants, and new team member – the meticulous Delia Carstairs – Delmonico embarks on what look likes an unsolvable mystery. All the murders are different. Are they dealing with one killer or many?
And if twelve murders were not enough, Carmine soon finds himself pitted against the mysterious spy, Ulysses – who is giving local arms giant Cornucopia's military secrets to the Russians. Are the murders and espionage different cases, or are they somehow linked?
Reviews
Praise for Colleen McCullough:
'Very much in the tradition of P.D. James…McCullough is a tremendous storyteller.' The Times
'Compelling, passionate and gritty.' She
'McCullough piles on the drama.' Daily Mail
'Absorbing.' Sunday Telegraph
'Probes the depths of the human heart in a haunting, multi-layered novel.' Good Book Guide
'This experienced writer knows how to grab attention and keep it.' Literary Review
About the author
Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A Neurophysiologist, she worked in the UK and Australia, before joining the department of Neurology at the Yale University school of Internal Medicine, where she remained for ten years. The publication of The Thorn Birds in 1977, saw the end of her scientific career. She moved to Norfolk Island in the South Pacific, where she lives with her husband of twenty-five years, Ric Robinson.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in a Connecticut college town, bestseller McCullough's disappointing sequel to On, Off (2006) starts off with an over-the-top premise and doesn't improve from there. In April 1967, a dozen murders occur in the normally quiet town of Holloman, Conn., in just 18 hours, culminating in the death by bear trap of Evan Pugh, a student at Chubb University with a penchant for blackmail. The disparate victims include a hooker, a college dean and the head of a major corporation; among the killing methods are four poisonings, three shootings and two pillow suffocations. In an unrealistic move, Capt. Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman police, who's in charge of the unwieldy investigation, sends his sergeants home for a good night's sleep while the crimes are still fresh. The solution may elicit unintended giggles as it papers over holes in logic rather than filling them.
