Neither Angels Nor Demons

by Tim Ellis

Parish and Richards are given the case of a dismembered male body found in an abandoned cesspit, but one body quickly becomes three, then eight . . . Richards finds out from her mother who JL is and it involves the thirty-four year-old case of Edgar Lassiter who raped and murdered three young girls and has recently died in Broadmoor. Richards receives a call from three internet sleuths who think they've found a new lead in an old case from the 1970s dubbed the Corpse in the Copse by the press when the body of a young woman was unearthed in 2008. The problem is that they need to access records from the Old Norfolk Hospital, which are protected by a Lord Chancellor's Instrument. Richards receives a warning telling her to leave the past in the past, a car with two people inside parks outside their house overnight, and one of the internet sleuths dies in a hit-and-run. Stick is searching for Xena and co-opts the help of Sergeant Toomey in Traffic and Mister Peckham in Forensics. The Chief allows him twenty-four hours, but he disobeys orders to keep looking for her. The Chief relents and gives him a temporary partner, so that he's not on his own – PCSO Barbara Mulroney who's been on the job for three weeks.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2021

About the author

Tim Ellis was born in the bowels of Hammersmith Hospital, London, on a dark and stormy night, and now lives in Cheshire with his wife and one ShihTzu. In-between, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at eighteen and completed twenty-two years service, leaving in 1993 having achieved the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Regimental Sergeant Major). Since then, he settled in Essex, and worked in secondary education as a senior financial manager, in higher education as an associate lecturer/tutor at Lincoln and Anglia Ruskin Universities, and as a consultant for the National College of School Leadership. His final job, before retiring to write fiction full time in 2009, was as Head and teacher of Behavioural Sciences (Psychology/Sociology) in a secondary school. He has a PhD and an MBA in Educational Management, and an MA in Education.

Reviews

[johnanimalantics.net, Margaret G Conlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic

Loved it right from the word go. Parish an Richards, Xena and Sticks were great team works juggling many crimes between them leaves room for many strands to be made into forthcoming books. It was an easy read and I wonder what’ll happen to the recent additions to Parish and Richards family. Another addition for sticks and his mind conversations were exact, funny as it had me smiling. I thoroughly recommend this book to you all hence five stars 😊

[Dave Loewy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The whole Parish and Richards series is great fun. The banter between Parish & Richards is a contrast to some gruesome scenes. The extension of the banter to their “rivals” Xena Blake and Stick adds a new dimension to the enjoyment. Highly recommended.

[david carlile · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

Just brilliant I enjoyed this book very much it was great reading and the only problem it wasn't long enough I look forward to the next book