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Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #2
The Missing Wife
Lady Yvette, the beautiful wife of local MP Sir Charles Millhouse, is found choked to death in a reservoir. Her clothes and an antique pearl collar she usually wore are missing.
Within a short space of time another body is discovered, also choked to death. With no clues and little forensic evidence to go on, will quirky Yorkshire policeman Michael Angel's guile be enough to reveal the identity of the choker?
Perfect for fans of R.D. Wingfield, Colin Dexter, Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill, and Agatha Christie.
THE DETECTIVE
Michael Angel is over fifty, married to Mary. They don’t have any children. They are a devoted couple but the relationship sometimes breaks down due to his job or due to the problems of Mary’s sister who lives in Edinburgh and imposes on their easygoing natures. Michael works at the small local police station and is devoted to defeating crime, murder, and dishonesty of any sort and has no personal ambition beyond being a good husband and a successful detective. He doesn’t want promotion with all the routine office work and stress that goes with it. He is incorruptible but always short of money. He is always at odds with his immediate chief, Detective Superintendent Horace Harker, who is lazy, a hypochondriac and not a bit interested in assisting Angel in serious police work.
THE SETTING
Bromersley is a market town at the bottom of the Pennines surrounded by stone and hawthorn-edged fields grazed by cattle and sheep. It is cold as anywhere in the winter but its closeness to the mountains protects it from many gales and heavy falls of snow. The town’s industry today includes the manufacture of ball bearings and whisky bottles, and a huge brewery produces Bromersley’s best bitter, which is considered the finest beer for miles around. Wednesday is market day, and the town centre is host to the frequent cries of stall-holders hawking their wares while the enticing smells of cheeses, coffees, foreign spices and fish and chips tempt your taste buds as you wander through the stalls. The police always find it difficult to catch pilferers and pickpockets in such a crowd. Bromersley folk are easy to befriend but many of the old people are stubborn and still buy their fruit and veg in pounds and ounces, not kilos and grams.
MICHAEL ANGEL SERIES
Book 1: THE MISSING NURSE
Book 2: THE MISSING WIFE
Book 3: THE MAN IN THE PINK SUIT
MORE YORKSHIRE MURDER MYSTERIES COMING SOON. JOIN THE JOFFE BOOKS MAILING LIST TO BE THE FIRST TO HEAR ABOUT THEM.
Within a short space of time another body is discovered, also choked to death. With no clues and little forensic evidence to go on, will quirky Yorkshire policeman Michael Angel's guile be enough to reveal the identity of the choker?
Perfect for fans of R.D. Wingfield, Colin Dexter, Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill, and Agatha Christie.
THE DETECTIVE
Michael Angel is over fifty, married to Mary. They don’t have any children. They are a devoted couple but the relationship sometimes breaks down due to his job or due to the problems of Mary’s sister who lives in Edinburgh and imposes on their easygoing natures. Michael works at the small local police station and is devoted to defeating crime, murder, and dishonesty of any sort and has no personal ambition beyond being a good husband and a successful detective. He doesn’t want promotion with all the routine office work and stress that goes with it. He is incorruptible but always short of money. He is always at odds with his immediate chief, Detective Superintendent Horace Harker, who is lazy, a hypochondriac and not a bit interested in assisting Angel in serious police work.
THE SETTING
Bromersley is a market town at the bottom of the Pennines surrounded by stone and hawthorn-edged fields grazed by cattle and sheep. It is cold as anywhere in the winter but its closeness to the mountains protects it from many gales and heavy falls of snow. The town’s industry today includes the manufacture of ball bearings and whisky bottles, and a huge brewery produces Bromersley’s best bitter, which is considered the finest beer for miles around. Wednesday is market day, and the town centre is host to the frequent cries of stall-holders hawking their wares while the enticing smells of cheeses, coffees, foreign spices and fish and chips tempt your taste buds as you wander through the stalls. The police always find it difficult to catch pilferers and pickpockets in such a crowd. Bromersley folk are easy to befriend but many of the old people are stubborn and still buy their fruit and veg in pounds and ounces, not kilos and grams.
MICHAEL ANGEL SERIES
Book 1: THE MISSING NURSE
Book 2: THE MISSING WIFE
Book 3: THE MAN IN THE PINK SUIT
MORE YORKSHIRE MURDER MYSTERIES COMING SOON. JOIN THE JOFFE BOOKS MAILING LIST TO BE THE FIRST TO HEAR ABOUT THEM.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2004
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Roger Silverwood
78 books86 followersThe Yorkshire author writes crime stories about Detective Inspector Michael Angel who lives a fairly happy existence with his wife Mary in the town of Bromersley in South Yorkshire.
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October 13, 2019
Lacking professionalism. Second rate.
Maybe in time,, the author will get better. Until then, he will need to read author's such as, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, Michael Connelly etc , to find out how to write story good detective novel.
Maybe in time,, the author will get better. Until then, he will need to read author's such as, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, Michael Connelly etc , to find out how to write story good detective novel.
November 21, 2020
Not thrilling OR gripping
But still compelling somehow.
I don't know why I keep reading this series, really. Michael Angel, who manages more similies than prizes at a county fair, is on the near side of annoying. Silverwood, besides giving us multiple suspects (that's okay) gives us muddled clues that shouldn't be muddled and no real access to Angel's thought process (maybe that's the real mystery). Crisp (from the first book) just disappears. He's probably lucky. Ron Gawber and Ahmed Ahar, who play foil to the Detective Inspector, are just cut outs to keep Angel from talking to himself. Both grin a lot.
I can't say when, or if I will read the next installment. However, the series does have Kindle Unlimited going for it.
But still compelling somehow.
I don't know why I keep reading this series, really. Michael Angel, who manages more similies than prizes at a county fair, is on the near side of annoying. Silverwood, besides giving us multiple suspects (that's okay) gives us muddled clues that shouldn't be muddled and no real access to Angel's thought process (maybe that's the real mystery). Crisp (from the first book) just disappears. He's probably lucky. Ron Gawber and Ahmed Ahar, who play foil to the Detective Inspector, are just cut outs to keep Angel from talking to himself. Both grin a lot.
I can't say when, or if I will read the next installment. However, the series does have Kindle Unlimited going for it.
February 9, 2021
The second in the series about Detective Inspector Angel. Good story, although I guessed the murderer quite early on, I didn’t know why or how or how he was going to find the solution. I like the characters, although, having read the first book, Angel’s ‘sayings’, such as ‘you’re harder to find than Lord Lucan’ starts to wear a little thin. Having said that, I suppose it has to carry on because it’s part of his character. I liked the Cadet and hope he gets to take a bigger role in the investigations in some future book.
April 26, 2020
Jacquelyn 😞Disappointed
This book was not written by this writer!!!!!!!!!!!! Book one was very funny and completely different. This is the Reason I bought
Book two,three and four. I Will Never Buy Another Book AGAIN in ADVANCE. I had planned to read all 14 books. What a rip off.
I live in the US. This book read just like the US. I like BRITISH writers!!!!! TOO BAD YOU L0ST A DEVOTED BUYER OF YOUR BOOKS.
This book was not written by this writer!!!!!!!!!!!! Book one was very funny and completely different. This is the Reason I bought
Book two,three and four. I Will Never Buy Another Book AGAIN in ADVANCE. I had planned to read all 14 books. What a rip off.
I live in the US. This book read just like the US. I like BRITISH writers!!!!! TOO BAD YOU L0ST A DEVOTED BUYER OF YOUR BOOKS.
April 26, 2020
Another mystery with unexpected twists and more characters brought in to frustrate Inspector Angel as well as, the reader. The Missing Wife wasn’t as interesting as The Missing Nurse. And there was a little too much of the Inspector’s anger at having to quit smoking. Nevertheless I still enjoyed reading this mystery and look forward to the next in the series.
November 1, 2019
The not so Angelic detectives
A good read. Just a good old fashioned whodunnit. No politics just the police investigating crime. A memorable set of characters and interesting plots.
A good read. Just a good old fashioned whodunnit. No politics just the police investigating crime. A memorable set of characters and interesting plots.
March 1, 2020
A good story
The plot is good with a few twists but Angel still has an annoying turn of phrase. A wife is murdered and found in a reservoir. A host of characters are unexpectedly linked. Angel gets to the bottom of the mystery.
The plot is good with a few twists but Angel still has an annoying turn of phrase. A wife is murdered and found in a reservoir. A host of characters are unexpectedly linked. Angel gets to the bottom of the mystery.
May 24, 2020
Detective Angel is at it again and still searching for a spare cigarette. The story is that a woman's naked body is found in a weir. Angel suspects the husband, but this story has a few twists and turns.
February 20, 2021
The Missing Wife
I have read this book in two nights.I love the characters you have created the young Indian cadet , I look forward to seeing how he progresses it was really enjoyable loved it now into the next one Thankyou
I have read this book in two nights.I love the characters you have created the young Indian cadet , I look forward to seeing how he progresses it was really enjoyable loved it now into the next one Thankyou
March 7, 2018
Decent characters, good writing, plot a bit simplistic, but all in all worth a read.
October 1, 2020
So good
Just having fun reading this series. I’m just starting and have read the first two and am hooked. I can’t wait to start number 3!
Just having fun reading this series. I’m just starting and have read the first two and am hooked. I can’t wait to start number 3!
February 16, 2021
Good plot and read it quite quickly Inspector Angel very non PC and quite annoying Would recommend
September 22, 2021
The Missing Wife is book two in the Yorkshire Murder Mysteries series by Roger Silverwood. Detective Inspector Michael Angel caught a case of the death of the wife of a local MP, Sir Charles Millhouse. At first, it looked like a suicide until another body turned up. The readers of The Missing Wife will continue to follow Detective Inspector Michael Angel to find out what happens.
I enjoy reading books in this series, and The Missing Wife did not disappoint. I had no trouble engaging with the story or characters of this book from the first page. I times, I had to laugh at what the characters get up to throughout this book. The Missing Wife is well written and researched by Roger Silverwood. I love Roger Silverwood portrayal of the characters and their interaction with each other throughout this book. I like Roger Silverwood's description of the settings of the Missing Wife that allows me to imagine being part of the book's plot.
The readers of The Missing Wife will learn about the role of an antique dealer. Also, the readers of The Missing Wife will understand the problems children have when one parent remarries.
I recommend this book.
I enjoy reading books in this series, and The Missing Wife did not disappoint. I had no trouble engaging with the story or characters of this book from the first page. I times, I had to laugh at what the characters get up to throughout this book. The Missing Wife is well written and researched by Roger Silverwood. I love Roger Silverwood portrayal of the characters and their interaction with each other throughout this book. I like Roger Silverwood's description of the settings of the Missing Wife that allows me to imagine being part of the book's plot.
The readers of The Missing Wife will learn about the role of an antique dealer. Also, the readers of The Missing Wife will understand the problems children have when one parent remarries.
I recommend this book.
September 15, 2020
A renowned MP's second wife has gone missing. They had been married for just 6 months. She was young, she was beautiful and he had everything to provide for her.
Her body has been recovered a few miles away in a creek, stark naked and left to rot in a stream.
DI Micheal Angel haa a lot to take in.
The MP has lost his first wife, is it to natural causes? Who is his son mixing with and why? Why was his friend dead in the alley!
The MP was so much in love with his wife, or was he.
A chase through the darkness of human relationships, of children and their father's, of revenge, of murder and of property disputes.
Silverwood has done a great job at keeping us guessing till the last moment and Detective Inspector Angel is so real-life a character that it hits close to home. A man who has to do the job, catch the killer, work against the clock, make the case stick and has well, like all of us, answer to a boss. His frustrations are our every day old frustrations, the anger, the muttering beneath our breaths, all too real.
Her body has been recovered a few miles away in a creek, stark naked and left to rot in a stream.
DI Micheal Angel haa a lot to take in.
The MP has lost his first wife, is it to natural causes? Who is his son mixing with and why? Why was his friend dead in the alley!
The MP was so much in love with his wife, or was he.
A chase through the darkness of human relationships, of children and their father's, of revenge, of murder and of property disputes.
Silverwood has done a great job at keeping us guessing till the last moment and Detective Inspector Angel is so real-life a character that it hits close to home. A man who has to do the job, catch the killer, work against the clock, make the case stick and has well, like all of us, answer to a boss. His frustrations are our every day old frustrations, the anger, the muttering beneath our breaths, all too real.
November 23, 2020
Another good read
The overall storyline and characters are good. The author’s ongoing over use of similes is the biggest negative. The craving for cigarettes is a bit off. I don’t remember him struggling m the first book. Still looking to be introduced to his wife. I don’t think she’s referenced at all or if she is very minimal.
The negatives are nothing that makes me not want to read more of the series. The positive of it being clean far outweighs the minor negatives.
The overall storyline and characters are good. The author’s ongoing over use of similes is the biggest negative. The craving for cigarettes is a bit off. I don’t remember him struggling m the first book. Still looking to be introduced to his wife. I don’t think she’s referenced at all or if she is very minimal.
The negatives are nothing that makes me not want to read more of the series. The positive of it being clean far outweighs the minor negatives.
April 30, 2020
Love the Character of Angel
I really enjoy the characters of all the regular police who populate the station in these books.
They are funny and pleasant and smart and I want to read more!
I really enjoy the characters of all the regular police who populate the station in these books.
They are funny and pleasant and smart and I want to read more!
May 26, 2020
Really good crime and detection novel.
An MPs wife has disappeared, and is subsequently found dead. D I Angel struggles with this case, which is full of unexpected twists and turns, with many strange characters popping in and out of the story. Enjoyed it.
An MPs wife has disappeared, and is subsequently found dead. D I Angel struggles with this case, which is full of unexpected twists and turns, with many strange characters popping in and out of the story. Enjoyed it.
May 29, 2020
This was book two in the series. I am not sorry I read it but it wasn’t on par with the first book in the series. Seemed to lack conviction. And the humor of the first novel wasn’t as evident in this one. I’d still recommend it for a very quick, light read.
July 23, 2020
I uden this book to fall asleep for a while because I found it to be incredibly boring. I wanted to give the series the benefit of a doubt after the first book, but it was just not worth my money. Finally finished it and to me, it was an unsatisfactory read.
September 23, 2020
Great plot
This book was a good read if , like me, you like to curl up by the fire and follow a good story line. Not difficult or ambiguous which suits me fine.
The characters are starting to come to life especially the cadet
This book was a good read if , like me, you like to curl up by the fire and follow a good story line. Not difficult or ambiguous which suits me fine.
The characters are starting to come to life especially the cadet
August 27, 2024
This is the second book in the series containing detective angel. We have a missing wife ,a missing carpet,a murder most fowl,(no spoilers). So just go out and buy this book and you will see what i mean.
March 1, 2020
Kinda fun
The characters will grow on you as time passes. I have great hope for a certain young cadet.
This was not a particularly cosy mystery, which is fine by me.
The characters will grow on you as time passes. I have great hope for a certain young cadet.
This was not a particularly cosy mystery, which is fine by me.
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March 2, 2020This series is becoming a favourite of mine D.I. Angel his Witt and Mr Ahmed are quite funny
May 13, 2020
Too much like hard work
For my little brain , I prefer period drama really. This was my husband's book, in my library. But I read it anyway.
For my little brain , I prefer period drama really. This was my husband's book, in my library. But I read it anyway.
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June 25, 2020Very enjoyable. A terrific book.
July 5, 2020
British police procedural
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August 26, 2020Really nice gentle crime novel. Inspector Angel seems to have success more by intuition and unexpected witnesses, rather than detective work. But that doesn't detract from the book.
October 14, 2020
Not that interesting. Virtually no personal information about any of the detectives.
January 3, 2021
An interesting story, but a few of the characterizations didn't match with the first book.
May 17, 2021
Like him , love him or hate him. You can’t ignore him. The detective M Angel. Quirky but diligent a good laugh too many a times.
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