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The Borough Boys #4
A Few Silver Threads
The ever inquisitive Samson Shepherd has a gut feeling. What has been reported as a death by illness has made the newly (temporarily) promoted Detective Sergeant consider how easy it is in 1852 to hide poisoning. His quest to understand such potions and opportunities looks like it may open up a whole can of worms.
A throwaway remark made some time before creates an unlikely suspect.
Detective Sergeant John Beddows is still recovering from his close encounter with death in London, but is he being dragged back, willingly or not?
As Shepherd starts digging, The Borough Boys murder count begins to rise once again.
What is the significance of 'the woman that does' and a strange and squeamish medical practitioner, and how are they connected to the death of Shepherd's uncle, Constable George Pearson, some years prior?
Are there mysterious 'other women' or just one skilled and cold killer, capable of assuming further identities?
When the connections begin to make sense, a trip out of Leicester is required once again, and unorthodox methods have to be sought to run their suspects to ground.
Even then, it seems that the law may deny many true justice. Can Shepherd and his colleagues just stand by and watch?
A throwaway remark made some time before creates an unlikely suspect.
Detective Sergeant John Beddows is still recovering from his close encounter with death in London, but is he being dragged back, willingly or not?
As Shepherd starts digging, The Borough Boys murder count begins to rise once again.
What is the significance of 'the woman that does' and a strange and squeamish medical practitioner, and how are they connected to the death of Shepherd's uncle, Constable George Pearson, some years prior?
Are there mysterious 'other women' or just one skilled and cold killer, capable of assuming further identities?
When the connections begin to make sense, a trip out of Leicester is required once again, and unorthodox methods have to be sought to run their suspects to ground.
Even then, it seems that the law may deny many true justice. Can Shepherd and his colleagues just stand by and watch?
347 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2021
About the author
Phil Simpkin
7 books16 followersI am a retired Police Officer, and for several years, I have been researching what my home town of Leicester, England, would have been like in early Victorian times, circa 1850.
So interesting have been my discoveries, that what was planned to be a 'one off' novel, about the town, has become a 'series'.
The first novel in the series, 'Jack ketch's Puppets' starts the line off in Leicester of 1850.
The second book in the series,'Death lurks in Cock Muck Hill', a novella, of 102 pages, was published on 10th June 2013.
Book three, 'Without Fear or Favour' was published in late 2016.
Book four 'A few silver threads' was published in June 2021.
I have also self published a collection of short folk tales, 'Leicestershire Myth & Legend - in verse', which is made up of folk lyrics and stories I have written over the last few years. These are only originally written for my grandkids, and the book as a test for self-publishing media.
I hope you enjoy my work!
So interesting have been my discoveries, that what was planned to be a 'one off' novel, about the town, has become a 'series'.
The first novel in the series, 'Jack ketch's Puppets' starts the line off in Leicester of 1850.
The second book in the series,'Death lurks in Cock Muck Hill', a novella, of 102 pages, was published on 10th June 2013.
Book three, 'Without Fear or Favour' was published in late 2016.
Book four 'A few silver threads' was published in June 2021.
I have also self published a collection of short folk tales, 'Leicestershire Myth & Legend - in verse', which is made up of folk lyrics and stories I have written over the last few years. These are only originally written for my grandkids, and the book as a test for self-publishing media.
I hope you enjoy my work!
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