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Inspector Vignoles Mysteries #7
Blood and Custard
Leicester, 1952: A team of archaeologists digging for the lost bones of King Richard III beneath the arches of the Great Central railway viaduct make a shocking discovery. A child’s body. It has been incinerated so completely that only bone fragments and a few teeth remain.
Railway detectives DI Vignoles and DS Trinder are called in to investigate. They soon discover a possible connection with a similar murder two years earlier in nearby Barrow Hill. And when a third boy goes missing, their worst fears are confirmed – a serial killer is on the loose, preying on young train-spotters.
Inspector Vignoles and his colleagues from the British Railways Detective Department must act quickly to track down the killer before he strikes again…
Set in and around Leicester at a time when Britain was just starting to emerge from postwar austerity, this novel offers a warm but unsentimental portrait of the lives of the men and women who worked on the former Great Central Railway.
Blood and Custard is a macabre, gripping thriller that is bound to appeal to railway enthusiasts and all lovers of good historical crime fiction.
Railway detectives DI Vignoles and DS Trinder are called in to investigate. They soon discover a possible connection with a similar murder two years earlier in nearby Barrow Hill. And when a third boy goes missing, their worst fears are confirmed – a serial killer is on the loose, preying on young train-spotters.
Inspector Vignoles and his colleagues from the British Railways Detective Department must act quickly to track down the killer before he strikes again…
Set in and around Leicester at a time when Britain was just starting to emerge from postwar austerity, this novel offers a warm but unsentimental portrait of the lives of the men and women who worked on the former Great Central Railway.
Blood and Custard is a macabre, gripping thriller that is bound to appeal to railway enthusiasts and all lovers of good historical crime fiction.
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Published July 15, 2015
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Stephen Done
17 books5 followersMuseum curator, Liverpool F.C. fan and writer of Inspector Vignoles mysteries series.
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December 3, 2018
i really enjoyed this yet again random choice of mine. It is set in what we now see as a bygone age of the British railway system, and perhaps today we sometimes see it as an age of difference where no criem was possible, yet crime was just as rife then. This murder mystery is very good, and keep you wanting to know what happens. Although this book is the 7th in the particular series, it is also a stand alone novel
August 3, 2017
If like me you have romantic,nostalgic recollectiobs of the age of steam and you like a twist of mystery & intrigue this whodunnit tale could be for you. The action is set in post war Britain in the 50s I believe.I can relate to it very well because it involves a young teenage group of innocent maybe naive trainspotters when you could spend leisure time collecting loco numbers and being chased out of engine sheds without being thought of as anoraks!
Though it is light,undemanding reading it is nevertheless an absorbing story.
Though it is light,undemanding reading it is nevertheless an absorbing story.
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