Call The Dying: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 7

Description

Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill could be the new Morse if TV schedulers have their way: don't miss the breakout book from this hugely talented award-winning crime writer It is 1955 and the influx of televisions do nothing to relieve the tensions in the deeply conservative town of Lydmouth. Mr Frederick, a television engineer, arrives to sell and adapt the new sets. He comes for two nights and apparently leaves. On the evening of that same day, eccentric Dr Bayswater, a retired GP, is found dead. A gentleman's yellow kid glove, slightly gnawed by rats, is found lying next to his body. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Thornhill is drafted in to investigate and it soon becomes apparent that the case is going to be far from straight-forward.

Andrew Taylor has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and publisher's reader. He has written many crime novels as well as children's books and lives with his wife and their two children in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of England and Wales.

"- 'Andrew Taylor is one of the most interesting, if not THE most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today' - Harriet Waugh, Spectator - 'Taylor is an excellent writer' - The Times - 'The people depicted here are real and believable and the drabness and genteel facade of Fifties England is skilfully brought to life. Taylor is, as always, adept at showing the reality beneath the surface' - Sunday Telegraph - 'How skilfully he recreates the atmosphere of the time through innuendo, attitude and detail rather than dogged description... Taylor is the master of small lives writ large' - Frances Fyfield, Express on The Suffocating Night - 'The most underrated crime writer in Britain today' - Val"