The Capricorn Murders
(2022)(The first book in the Bates and Briant Investigations series)
A novel by Abraham Kawa
An intriguing British mystery series you don’t want to miss! Perfect for fans Michael Dobbs, Patricia Cornwell, Elly Griffiths and Peter May.
Two bodies have been discovered. But could there be more…?
London, 1969
When two dead women are discovered in a peat bog, Murder Squad DI Chris Bates is joined on the scene by police photographer Helen Briant, with whom he has a thorny relationship.
Fingerprints identify the women as Maddy Lynn, a glamour model-turned-prostitute, and Gillian Loder, long-missing daughter of former Junior Cabinet Minister Anthony Loder.
While unrelated and murdered years apart, both girls were killed in ways evocative of druidic rituals.
Intrigued by the gap between the murders, Chris starts looking at other unsolved similar cases.
And he soon discovers more potential victims who were lost young people like Gillian and Maddy.
Meanwhile, Helen has become obsessed with the case, filling her studio with photos of the victims and attempting to connect them through a visual reconstruction of their lives.
Their methods complementing each other, Bates and Briant find themselves drawn into an uneasy collaboration as they seek to unravel the mystery…
What is the significance of the druidic rituals? Are these murders the work of a cult?
And is the killer still at large?
THE CAPRICORN MURDERSis the first police procedural crime novel in an exciting historical mystery series, the Bates and Briant Investigations — gritty, hard-boiled thrillers set in 1960s and 1970s London.
THE BATES AND BRIANT INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
BOOK ONE: The Capricorn Murders
BOOK TWO: The Red Death
Genre: Mystery
Two bodies have been discovered. But could there be more…?
London, 1969
When two dead women are discovered in a peat bog, Murder Squad DI Chris Bates is joined on the scene by police photographer Helen Briant, with whom he has a thorny relationship.
Fingerprints identify the women as Maddy Lynn, a glamour model-turned-prostitute, and Gillian Loder, long-missing daughter of former Junior Cabinet Minister Anthony Loder.
While unrelated and murdered years apart, both girls were killed in ways evocative of druidic rituals.
Intrigued by the gap between the murders, Chris starts looking at other unsolved similar cases.
And he soon discovers more potential victims who were lost young people like Gillian and Maddy.
Meanwhile, Helen has become obsessed with the case, filling her studio with photos of the victims and attempting to connect them through a visual reconstruction of their lives.
Their methods complementing each other, Bates and Briant find themselves drawn into an uneasy collaboration as they seek to unravel the mystery…
What is the significance of the druidic rituals? Are these murders the work of a cult?
And is the killer still at large?
THE CAPRICORN MURDERSis the first police procedural crime novel in an exciting historical mystery series, the Bates and Briant Investigations — gritty, hard-boiled thrillers set in 1960s and 1970s London.
THE BATES AND BRIANT INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
BOOK ONE: The Capricorn Murders
BOOK TWO: The Red Death
Genre: Mystery
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