Death Penalties
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Publisher Description
Taut and gripping, Death Penalties is the second and final book in the DCI Luke Abbott series. From CWA Golden Dagger winner and author of Monkey Puzzle, Paula Gosling.
A charming, ordinary village in the West Country. After her husband's tragic death, Tess is finally able to restart life with her son, Max. But someone is determined to tear it apart.
A break in. A burglary. Threatening phone calls from unknown sources and vicious practical jokes. A sinister campaign of harassment is against her – all anonymous.
With his boss, DCI Luke Abbott, Sergeant Tim Nightingale is tasked with uncovering the culprit. Could it be the person responsible for her husband's death?
Death Penalties is the second and final book in the series, following The Wychford Murders.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British award-winner Gosling adds another taut tale to her series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbott, now in London. After Roger Leland, dies in a car crash, his American interior-designer wife, Tess, is beset by further troubles. Her home is burglarized; she receives unnerving silent phone calls. When her son Max comes down with rheumatic fever, she hires a widowed Cambridge scholar to tutor the boy in exchange for housing. Max's co-guardian opposes the plan even though Tess, whose phone caller has begun to demand money, expects to feel safer with a man in the house. Concurrently Detective Sergeant Tim Nightingale learns from the diary of a recently deceased retired politician that Roger's car was run off the road by a man who after the crash tried to pry open the trunk. Tim must convince Luke that the string of events are not merely coincidences. With stylish turns of phrase and special insights, Gosling tells an exciting tale that builds to a breathtaking finale in the London tube. Mystery Guild alternate.
