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Brunette
An Olympic hopeful is murdered, a professor is the prime suspect. Can colleague Perry Webster prove his innocence?
Teaching is unexpectedly postponed at York University when a promising student is found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Well-liked, a good student, and an Olympics fencing prospect, Mackenzie West’s death shocks the whole college.
Once suicide is ruled out, police quickly interview everyone in the building, but suspicions soon fall on Matt Harper, head of the philosophy department. When a credible motive emerges, he’ll need his friend and colleague Perry Webster to get himself out of the frame.
Two years after solving the murder of his fiancée, Perry Webster is once again drawn reluctantly into investigating a girl’s death. He unearths an altogether shadier side to the victim’s past life which could hold the key to her murder.
Perry’s stumbling in the dark will not only incur the wrath of the detectives on the case, who’d love to see him fail, but seriously imperil the life of those around him as well as his own. He’ll need all of his wits and intelligence to find the real killer, and bring them to justice.
This is a whodunit that will have you guessing to the very end. BRUNETTE is impossible to put down.
BRUNETTE is the second book featuring Private Investigator Perry Webster. It can be enjoyed on its own, although some of the colourful characters from BLONDE, the first novel, re-emerge in this one.
Teaching is unexpectedly postponed at York University when a promising student is found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Well-liked, a good student, and an Olympics fencing prospect, Mackenzie West’s death shocks the whole college.
Once suicide is ruled out, police quickly interview everyone in the building, but suspicions soon fall on Matt Harper, head of the philosophy department. When a credible motive emerges, he’ll need his friend and colleague Perry Webster to get himself out of the frame.
Two years after solving the murder of his fiancée, Perry Webster is once again drawn reluctantly into investigating a girl’s death. He unearths an altogether shadier side to the victim’s past life which could hold the key to her murder.
Perry’s stumbling in the dark will not only incur the wrath of the detectives on the case, who’d love to see him fail, but seriously imperil the life of those around him as well as his own. He’ll need all of his wits and intelligence to find the real killer, and bring them to justice.
This is a whodunit that will have you guessing to the very end. BRUNETTE is impossible to put down.
BRUNETTE is the second book featuring Private Investigator Perry Webster. It can be enjoyed on its own, although some of the colourful characters from BLONDE, the first novel, re-emerge in this one.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2018
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May 23, 2018
When a promising young student is found dead at his university, philosophy professor Perry Webster rushes in to defend the innocence of his colleague. Still mourning the murder of his girlfriend, Perry is forced once again to turn investigator. He uncovers a darker side to student life at York, and is faced with moral dilemmas that find him torn between his responsibilities as a private investigator and a university professor.
Another brilliantly written book from Stan Jackson, with prose to savour and plot twists to keep you guessing until the very end. Jackson deals sensitively with some thought-provoking issues, which makes this a fascinating as well as engaging read.
Another brilliantly written book from Stan Jackson, with prose to savour and plot twists to keep you guessing until the very end. Jackson deals sensitively with some thought-provoking issues, which makes this a fascinating as well as engaging read.
August 19, 2018
Mostly boring
Not much action until the end of the book. Many long-winded philosophical discussions which ,to me, didn't belong in a mystery. The end was good but it took too long for any meaningful action.
Not much action until the end of the book. Many long-winded philosophical discussions which ,to me, didn't belong in a mystery. The end was good but it took too long for any meaningful action.
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