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Only the Dead
Book one in the Harrogate Crime Series. Malcolm is a writer’s writer.
Hollingdrake's novel cleverly fuses some well-researched – and entirely fascinating – historical references and with equally-well represented modern-policing procedures, producing a tightly plotted and considered read. – DCI Bennett is allowed to be a real person, rather than a box-ticking mannequin displaying all the usual detective characteristics. He has his foibles, his flaws, his prejudices and his ethics. I liked the lead character a lot, and sense much more development to come in future books. ★★★★★
Only the Dead for fans of Angela Marsons, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin and LJ Ross.
Readers LOVE Only the Dead.
Meet DCI Cyril Bennett, a man with a passion for manners and efficiency, as well as an eye for the ladies. His partner, DS David Owen, is naïve and untidy but keen. Together they make a formidable pair.
When the discovery of two infants’ bodies is made at a Teacher Training College, Bennett and Owen are given the case. Soon a number of suspects is identified.
At the same time, a killer is on the loose staging attacks using sulphur mustard.
Is there a link between the infants’ bodies and the sulphur mustard attacks?
Do the answers lie in the past or the present?
Bennett and Owen must work together to bring to justice a killer with revenge on his mind.
★★★★★ An excellent beginning to a new crime series!
★★★★★ Revenge, greed, mystery, love and loss - this book has it all, and more ... and is a fabulous start to The Harrogate Crime Series; I can’t wait to read more.
★★★★★ I am really impressed with this novel. It is an exciting page turner. Extremely well written. Set in the City of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England and southern France. The author brings the characters alive and the reader is drawn into their lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good detective novels.
Genre: Mystery
Book one in the Harrogate Crime Series. Malcolm is a writer’s writer.
Hollingdrake's novel cleverly fuses some well-researched – and entirely fascinating – historical references and with equally-well represented modern-policing procedures, producing a tightly plotted and considered read. – DCI Bennett is allowed to be a real person, rather than a box-ticking mannequin displaying all the usual detective characteristics. He has his foibles, his flaws, his prejudices and his ethics. I liked the lead character a lot, and sense much more development to come in future books. ★★★★★
Only the Dead for fans of Angela Marsons, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin and LJ Ross.
Readers LOVE Only the Dead.
Meet DCI Cyril Bennett, a man with a passion for manners and efficiency, as well as an eye for the ladies. His partner, DS David Owen, is naïve and untidy but keen. Together they make a formidable pair.
When the discovery of two infants’ bodies is made at a Teacher Training College, Bennett and Owen are given the case. Soon a number of suspects is identified.
At the same time, a killer is on the loose staging attacks using sulphur mustard.
Is there a link between the infants’ bodies and the sulphur mustard attacks?
Do the answers lie in the past or the present?
Bennett and Owen must work together to bring to justice a killer with revenge on his mind.
★★★★★ An excellent beginning to a new crime series!
★★★★★ Revenge, greed, mystery, love and loss - this book has it all, and more ... and is a fabulous start to The Harrogate Crime Series; I can’t wait to read more.
★★★★★ I am really impressed with this novel. It is an exciting page turner. Extremely well written. Set in the City of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England and southern France. The author brings the characters alive and the reader is drawn into their lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good detective novels.
Genre: Mystery
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