A Willing Victim

by Laura Wilson

Overview

It’s 1956 and Inspector Ted Stratton must investigate the murder of a young man in London who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a new age cult based in Suffolk. Traveling to Suffolk, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers led by an enigmatic, charismatic leader, and a femme fatale with a shady past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631940699
Publisher:	Felony & Mayhem Press
Publication date:	11/07/2015
Series:	Ted Stratton , #4
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Laura Wilson is a British writer of historical crime novels. She is also the crime fiction reviewer for The Guardian. Her novel Stratton's War (published by Felony & Mayhem as The Innocent Spy) won the Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Mystery in 2008. She lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

★ 10/05/2015
Set in England in 1956, Wilson's fourth period whodunit featuring Det. Insp. Ted Stratton (after 2010's A Capital Crime) masterfully blends a captivating puzzle with characters newcomers can instantly identify with. Stratton is assigned to the murder of Jeremy Lloyd, a member of the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a group that aimed to "discover and put into practice a precise system of knowledge about man's place in the universe and his spiritual evolution." Lloyd, who had begun working on a book about the foundation, was stabbed to death in his London rooms with a pair of scissors. The trail takes Stratton to the group's home in Sussex, where he finds its members convinced that one of their number, a preteen boy, is a "spiritually advanced being" destined to mature into a teacher like Jesus or Buddha. Wilson's moving portrayal of the inspector's efforts to come to terms with the loss of his wife and somehow carry on, as well as to relate to his two adult children, adds depth to an atmospheric and well-constructed mystery. (Nov.)

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