The Wages of Desire: A World War II Mystery (Inspector Lamb)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1681771497 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and has taught writing and journalism at Hopkins, Towson University, in Baltimore, and Sweet Briar College, in Virginia. His work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and Baltimore Magazine. Stephen Kelly is an award-winning writer, re
"An English village with secrets" according to Jill Meyer. Not all deaths in wartime happen on the battlefield or in a bombed city. Sometimes people are murdered in quiet country villages in places like Hampshire. Those deaths are investigated by policemen who sometimes wonder why they're not off in battle. But they're serving their country by keeping the peace at home. Such a policeman is Thomas Lamb, in "The Wages of Desire", who is faced with murders both recent and not-so-recent in 19An English village with secrets Jill Meyer Not all deaths in wartime happen on the battlefield or in a bombed city. Sometimes people are murdered in quiet country villages in places like Hampshire. Those deaths are investigated by policemen who sometimes wonder why they're not off in battle. But they're serving their country by keeping the peace at home. Such a policeman is Thomas Lamb, in "The Wages of Desire", who is faced with murders both recent and not-so-recent in 1942 in the village of Winstead. Lamb, who served in the trenches in the Great War, is called on to investigate the murder of a woman found . 2 in the village of Winstead. Lamb, who served in the trenches in the Great War, is called on to investigate the murder of a woman found . A not so cozy village mystery Galla One might be forgiven to think at first that this would be a cozy mystery. It has the ingredients: a small village in 1941, a courteous and intelligent police inspector, the village rector, an inquisitive child, an odd woman obsessed with birds, and the corpse of a mysterious woman found in the church graveyard. However, Kelly gives a few eye openers within the first few pages to let the reader know that this is not exactly a "cozy" , but a complicated crime with two apparent suspects, both of whom are definitely not what they appear to be. Then the twenty year old . J. Lesley said Kept me guessing until almost the final paragraph!. I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley and Pegasus Books, W. W. Norton & Co.If you decide to read this book, take my advice and don't ever let yourself begin to think you have all the ducks in a row and you can solve the case on your own. No such thing because this author will have his plot take twists and turns from beginning to end. I enjoyed that. Of course it didn't hurt at all that I was reading what I like to think of as a "classic" historical British mystery. This one takes place in 19Kept me guessing until almost the final paragraph! J. Lesley I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley and Pegasus Books, W. W. Norton & Co.If you decide to read this book, take my advice and don't ever let yourself begin to think you have all the ducks in a row and you can solve the case on your own. No such thing because this author will have his plot take twists and turns from beginning to end. I enjoyed that. Of course it didn't hurt at all that I was reading what I like to think of as a "classic" historical British mystery. This one takes place in 1941 and features Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb. In orde. 1 and features Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb. In orde
Fans of the TV series Foyle’s War will be pleased.” (Publisher's Weekly (starred review))“Some of the most precise, most thorough, scene descriptions I’ve ever read. “Kelly adds something perversely novel, and potentially divisive, to the decorous conventions of his golden-age models: abrupt shifts in point of view, sometimes within a single scene, between characters who seem right out of Agatha Christie and those with considerably darker doings on their minds.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Set in 1942, Kelly’s pleasantly baffling second whodunit featuring Det. An entertaining World War II
In the late summer of 1941, as the war deepens, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb must risk his life to sort out the links between a series of killingspast and presentin a Hampshire village brimming with buried secrets. In the late summer of 1941, as the war in Europe drags on, long-buried secrets begin to surface in the Hampshire village of Winstead, when the body of a young woman – a former conscientious objector - is found shot to death in the church cemetery. As Lamb pieces together the connections between the crimes, he draws closer to the source of evil in Winstead’s past and present and, in the end, must risk his