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Title: Denial of Murder
Author: Peter Turnbull
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-01-14
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within 24 hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard realise they must be linked. But how?
Vicary and his team are drawn into a complex investigation one which will take them from remote cottages in rural Hampshire to the dark world of inner city sex workers, child abuse within north London suburbia, and the injustice of a long-standing wrongful conviction.
Members Reviews:
Almost a "10"
If the Inspector Hennessey novels are a "10", then this series with DCI Vickery is a "9".
Nothing except police procedural.
The title of this novel tells the reader that this will be a police procedural so I was expecting that. What I wasn't expecting was that it would be absolutely nothing but a police procedural. Minimal description, clipped on-topic-only dialog, and a tiny amount of character revelation which more often left me more confused than informed is what I found here. If you want to be a fly on the wall to listen in while police have strategy sessions, attend postmortem examinations, and interview witnesses........well, this is definitely the book for you. Frankly, it was more bare-bones than any mystery novel I've ever read and not a favorite style for me, but I can understand how readers who want only to concentrate on the crime involved and the processes used to solve the crime would like it.
Detective Inspector Harry Vicary is the head of this team with four investigators in the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard. Members of the team are Frankie Brunnie, Tom Ainsclough, Penny Yewdall, and Victor Swanell. Also featured is John Shaftoe, the forensic pathologist. I think these characters were present in the previous three novels in this series since none of them was introduced as new to the team, but I've never read a novel by Peter Turnbull so I can't be sure of that. A milkman on the early morning portion of his route has found the body of a dead man lying in the street between parked cars in the suburb of Wimbledon. When Vicary and his team arrive to investigate they discover that a car, later found to have been stolen, was set ablaze a few streets away from this crime scene the previous night in this same section of Wimbledon. The investigation begins to identify the victim and determine the cause of death. Twenty-four hours later a second body and a second burned out vehicle are found in the exact same locations. Now police must work to try to find a link between these two victims and hope that link will lead to the killer.
As I've said, this novel was not a favorite of mine. I like to feel that I get to know the characters in a story and I got no personal involvement here at all. It was also clear very early on who the officers would be looking for so the only discovery for me as a reader was to see the past histories of all the victims, witnesses, and criminals uncovered and watch as the police gathered evidence to make arrests. There was this really annoying element of having snatches of dialog repeated two or three times during conversations which was quite irritating for me. Bare-bones, cut-to-the-chase, no time wasted on the feelings or personalities of the official investigation team; these all describe what I found in this novel.
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Title: Denial of Murder
Author: Peter Turnbull
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-01-14
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within 24 hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard realise they must be linked. But how?
Vicary and his team are drawn into a complex investigation one which will take them from remote cottages in rural Hampshire to the dark world of inner city sex workers, child abuse within north London suburbia, and the injustice of a long-standing wrongful conviction.
Members Reviews:
Almost a "10"
If the Inspector Hennessey novels are a "10", then this series with DCI Vickery is a "9".
Nothing except police procedural.
The title of this novel tells the reader that this will be a police procedural so I was expecting that. What I wasn't expecting was that it would be absolutely nothing but a police procedural. Minimal description, clipped on-topic-only dialog, and a tiny amount of character revelation which more often left me more confused than informed is what I found here. If you want to be a fly on the wall to listen in while police have strategy sessions, attend postmortem examinations, and interview witnesses........well, this is definitely the book for you. Frankly, it was more bare-bones than any mystery novel I've ever read and not a favorite style for me, but I can understand how readers who want only to concentrate on the crime involved and the processes used to solve the crime would like it.
Detective Inspector Harry Vicary is the head of this team with four investigators in the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard. Members of the team are Frankie Brunnie, Tom Ainsclough, Penny Yewdall, and Victor Swanell. Also featured is John Shaftoe, the forensic pathologist. I think these characters were present in the previous three novels in this series since none of them was introduced as new to the team, but I've never read a novel by Peter Turnbull so I can't be sure of that. A milkman on the early morning portion of his route has found the body of a dead man lying in the street between parked cars in the suburb of Wimbledon. When Vicary and his team arrive to investigate they discover that a car, later found to have been stolen, was set ablaze a few streets away from this crime scene the previous night in this same section of Wimbledon. The investigation begins to identify the victim and determine the cause of death. Twenty-four hours later a second body and a second burned out vehicle are found in the exact same locations. Now police must work to try to find a link between these two victims and hope that link will lead to the killer.
As I've said, this novel was not a favorite of mine. I like to feel that I get to know the characters in a story and I got no personal involvement here at all. It was also clear very early on who the officers would be looking for so the only discovery for me as a reader was to see the past histories of all the victims, witnesses, and criminals uncovered and watch as the police gathered evidence to make arrests. There was this really annoying element of having snatches of dialog repeated two or three times during conversations which was quite irritating for me. Bare-bones, cut-to-the-chase, no time wasted on the feelings or personalities of the official investigation team; these all describe what I found in this novel.