The Body Beautiful

An Eddathorpe Mystery #5

by Raymond Flynn

Robert Graham is mugged when he's mistaken for a stalker instead of a law-abiding detective chief inspector. His loyal but over-enthusiastic dog inflicts an embarrassing wound on Graham's attacker. A peeping tom outsmarts the police force. And a fast-talking barmaid disappears just like her one-time husband, the paroled rapist.

But it's someone quite different who dies. Shirley (alias Davinia) West had hoped to make her fortune as a beauty queen. Instead she makes the headlines when she's murdered brutally under the noses of the police. Who were supposedly trying to thwart the stalker, the peeping tom and the missing rapist at the time...

281 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Cole Mumpasi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was not good. The ending was terrible and it took me almost two years to force my way through it. I didn’t care about a single character and this was the most boring murder mystery ever. The two stars I gave it were generous.