Dusty Death

by J. M. Gregson

Overview

Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, uninhabitable houses demolished. Happy, that is, until the clearance reveals a grisly secret – a corpse of a squatter. Detective Chief Inspector Peach investigates, but finds that the memories of the victim’s former companions are not easily stirred about things they would rather forget.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780103150
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Series:	An Inspector Peach Mystery , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	424 KB

About the Author

Gregson is a Lancastrian by birth, and taught for 27 years in schools, colleges and universities.

Editorial Reviews

Urban renewal does more than demolish the old mill houses of Bruton, East Lancashire, when the wrecking ball uncovers a human arm reaching skyward as if in supplication. Detective Chief Insp. Percy Peach and Lucy Blake, his sergeant and lover (Just Desserts, 2004, etc.), are surprised by how quickly they learn the identity of the murdered girl. In 1991, Sunita Akhtar, a Pakistani runaway, was living in a rundown mill house with five other people. The neighborhood peeping Tom enables the police to identify them all, along with the drug dealer using the house next door. They may have been down on their luck back then, but now they're mostly solid citizens. Matthew Hayward, Sunita's cast-off lover, is a concert pianist. Sunita's lesbian lover has become Sister Josephine, a nun who works with the dying. Emmy, who tried to enlist Sunita as a prostitute, is successful businesswoman Jane Watson. Billy Warnock has married and become a football coach. Neighborhood drug dealer David Edmonds is an estate agent and family man. Only Wally Swift has remained a violent drug dealer and thus the most likely suspect. All have selective memories of their days in the squat, but Peach's relentless interviews reconstruct the truth brick by brick. A peach of a procedural, amusing throughout, that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Kirkus Reviews