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Dance Floor Drowning
A 2013 “YouWriteOn” prize winner
A gripping mystery for adult and teenage readers.
A corpse floats in a swimming pool beneath a dance floor. A blood soaked head is found in a local beauty spot. A woman is clubbed to death and left to rot in medieval tunnels under the city streets.
Three brutal murders, ten years apart. What connects them? Why is a senior police officer determined to hide the truth? What really happened under cover of an air raid that killed seventy Christmas revellers in a popular city centre pub?
Another Billy Perks investigation. The old team; Billy’s pals Yvonne Sparkes and “Kick” Morley with old Etonian, M.D. Doc Hadfield, are joined this time by a new sleuth, rookie cop, PC John Needham.
A gripping mystery for adult and teenage readers.
A corpse floats in a swimming pool beneath a dance floor. A blood soaked head is found in a local beauty spot. A woman is clubbed to death and left to rot in medieval tunnels under the city streets.
Three brutal murders, ten years apart. What connects them? Why is a senior police officer determined to hide the truth? What really happened under cover of an air raid that killed seventy Christmas revellers in a popular city centre pub?
Another Billy Perks investigation. The old team; Billy’s pals Yvonne Sparkes and “Kick” Morley with old Etonian, M.D. Doc Hadfield, are joined this time by a new sleuth, rookie cop, PC John Needham.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 16, 2014
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November 8, 2015
I enjoyed this book so much! It was even better than the first book of the series, which I also enjoyed.
Billy Perks and his friends are very endearing and entertaining. All the characters were interesting; I'm quite taken with their village life and the peek into 1950's England.
I laughed very often while reading this book; there was a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour (as well as not-so-tongue-in-cheek humour), and the mystery/action was very "edge of my seat" throughout! The author also used references from history to enhance the plot. For instance, Mary Queen of Scots' fate was woven into the storyline, which made the story all the more exciting and realistic.
I hope there will be more instalments of this series forthcoming. Highly recommend!
Billy Perks and his friends are very endearing and entertaining. All the characters were interesting; I'm quite taken with their village life and the peek into 1950's England.
I laughed very often while reading this book; there was a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour (as well as not-so-tongue-in-cheek humour), and the mystery/action was very "edge of my seat" throughout! The author also used references from history to enhance the plot. For instance, Mary Queen of Scots' fate was woven into the storyline, which made the story all the more exciting and realistic.
I hope there will be more instalments of this series forthcoming. Highly recommend!
April 8, 2019
It’s a long time since I enjoyed reading a book so much. I guess I have a biased view having grown up on Orchard Road, Walkley, Sheffield, where we find the home of Granny Smeggs and adjacent to Highton Street where Billy and Yvonne live, but I outright loved it.
The Sheffieldish laced dialogue and familiar territory added to my enjoyment, but the book and its predecessor (Tuppenny Hat Detective) are built on the strength of the characters and the inter-play between them. Billy Perks is a wonderful creation - adventurous, cheeky, determined; a truly loveable young lad with a heart of gold and a wit that would give many a stand up comic a run for their money.
The historical facts interwoven into the plot add to the believability and the only negative was the ending which felt rushed, and too similar to the previous novel in many ways.
However, I would have liked to have given it 6 stars before reading the end, so 5 stars seems a fitting rating and I’m looking forward to getting my teeth into the final book of the trilogy...
The Sheffieldish laced dialogue and familiar territory added to my enjoyment, but the book and its predecessor (Tuppenny Hat Detective) are built on the strength of the characters and the inter-play between them. Billy Perks is a wonderful creation - adventurous, cheeky, determined; a truly loveable young lad with a heart of gold and a wit that would give many a stand up comic a run for their money.
The historical facts interwoven into the plot add to the believability and the only negative was the ending which felt rushed, and too similar to the previous novel in many ways.
However, I would have liked to have given it 6 stars before reading the end, so 5 stars seems a fitting rating and I’m looking forward to getting my teeth into the final book of the trilogy...
December 1, 2014
Every bit as good as the first Billy Perks novel Tuppenny Hat Detective. There is something very comforting about the nostalgia – it is the literary equivalent of a big fluffy dressing gown and a mug of cocoa on a cold evening. Full review at: http://stevek1889.blogspot.co.uk/2014...
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