Demolition
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
Secrets, lies, murder . . . and planning permission. Henry Christie is pulled into two chilling murder investigations and uncovers dark secrets dating back to the Second World War in this unflinching thriller.
Henry Christie is focused on running his pub, the Tawny Owl, where he learns of the Kendleton protest group's fury with James Twain, a local property developer, and the keen desire of some residents to solve a murder that stretches back to the Second World War.
When James is viciously killed in his barn, and another body is found in similar disturbing circumstances nearby, Henry is drawn into the investigations and the villagers’ dark wartime secrets. Pulled out of retirement once more to lead a double murder inquiry for Lancashire police, can he uncover the truth behind chilling events both past and present?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Oldham's facile 29th Henry Christie mystery (after 2021's Scarred) finds Christie, a retired detective-cum–pub owner of the Tawny Owl in the quaint English village of åçKendleton, reluctantly drawn back into his former work upon the murders of two cutthroat real estate speculators, who were apparently in cahoots with each other. While Christie and his unlikely partner, Det. Sgt. Debbie Blackstone, a spiky pink-haired, tattooed, facially pierced 20-something, are investigating, an elderly, invalid neighbor is assaulted, leading them to the discovery of generations-old unsolved murders and rapes. Though the plot is clever, at times the dialogue misses the mark. (No self-respecting punker would say, for example, "You big, soft lummox, come 'ere," as Blackstone says to Christie.) And strangely, while almost the entire police local force is laid low by Covid, none of the other characters are affected by it in the least. Though Oldham knows how to deliver what his fans want, some may feel that this long-running series is beginning to show signs of fatigue.
