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Mollie Parkinson Mystery #1
The Front Door Murders
Mollie Parkinson was destroyed professionally by a mystery she couldn’t solve. Even though she moves on to other crimes, in other countries and is successful, she cannot rest until she finds The Front Door Murderer.
Mollie is a Yorkshire woman who has moved with her partner to Australia and developed a successful career in the New South Wales police where she has risen to the rank of Superintendent. Her success makes her something of a legend in local police circles until she takes on the serial killer investigation into what the press call the Front Door Murders.
The apparently motiveless murder of women on their front door steps makes for sensational press headlines and the media repeatedly question the efficiency of the police. Pressure from the press for a solution to the murders leads Mollie’s team to wrongly implicate a veteran of the Vietnam War, a quiet family man whose story the press trumpet as another example of police failure. Under pressure from her bosses and the media and without any leads Mollie feels compelled to resign from the New South Wales police force.
Ultimately she starts a new career as a private investigator in California and develops a successful business based in San Francisco and Los Angeles where many of her clients are Hollywood stars, and we see an example of this in the case of a starlet murdered on the set.
Mollie will never rest until she can find the Front Door Murderer and when her Californian business becomes established and successful she returns to Sydney to try again to find the killer.
The story moves from Sydney in Australia to Yorkshire and Bath in England, to California and then back to Sydney. A group of friends who think they are commentators on the murder find out they are more involved than they could have imagined.
Mollie is a Yorkshire woman who has moved with her partner to Australia and developed a successful career in the New South Wales police where she has risen to the rank of Superintendent. Her success makes her something of a legend in local police circles until she takes on the serial killer investigation into what the press call the Front Door Murders.
The apparently motiveless murder of women on their front door steps makes for sensational press headlines and the media repeatedly question the efficiency of the police. Pressure from the press for a solution to the murders leads Mollie’s team to wrongly implicate a veteran of the Vietnam War, a quiet family man whose story the press trumpet as another example of police failure. Under pressure from her bosses and the media and without any leads Mollie feels compelled to resign from the New South Wales police force.
Ultimately she starts a new career as a private investigator in California and develops a successful business based in San Francisco and Los Angeles where many of her clients are Hollywood stars, and we see an example of this in the case of a starlet murdered on the set.
Mollie will never rest until she can find the Front Door Murderer and when her Californian business becomes established and successful she returns to Sydney to try again to find the killer.
The story moves from Sydney in Australia to Yorkshire and Bath in England, to California and then back to Sydney. A group of friends who think they are commentators on the murder find out they are more involved than they could have imagined.
- GenresMystery
243 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 2, 2011
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October 11, 2017
I have never given a one star review before, but this book was terrible. The writing was atrocious, especially the dialogue. The story was implausible. I can't believe it got so many good ratings.
April 22, 2015
Rambling crime mystery. A naive style and somewhat stilted dialogue. Part of the action takes place in Yorkshire which apparently still has lots of coal miners.
March 8, 2013
Really enjoyed the storyline and made me think of the women's murder club which is an easy read which makes you want to read more. Definitely worth a read.
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