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Ice Cold
The five-star Riverside Hotel has been holding murder-mystery weekends since its opening, but this is the first that security consultant and part-time detective Billie Oliphant has ever attended. Yet, despite its opulent luxury, the hotel has a disturbing history it omits to mention in its glossy brochures. On its opening weekend a young employee, Annabelle Wilder, was found dead in a walk-in freezer. She was naked, bound and gagged - and pregnant. The police have never come close to charging anyone with her murder, despite the fact that at the time of Annabelle's death the hotel only had a dozen or so guests, and security tapes showed that no-one entered or left the building. Billy has been hired by the dead woman's husband to find Annabelle's killer. Opening a cold case is never easy but Billy has a plan. The company that owns the hotel, Amalgam, has arranged for its directors to attend yet another team-building murder weekend. Billy gate-crashes the Amalgam team and offers them the chance to solve a real life murder, knowing full well that any one of these would be detectives could also be a cold-hearted killer.
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January 27, 2012
Ex-policeman, and now security consultant, Billy Olliphant is offered a job with Amalgam, a large upmarket hotel chain, and sets off to meet with the Directors at the Riverside. On his way, he learns that there is an unsolved "locked room" murder from precisely 1 year ago that must involve the directors who were staying in the as yet unopened hotel.
Determined to investigate, Billy is given a little over 24 hours before the Directors disperse, and recruits friends to help. In the process he is threatened, beaten up and gassed.
Once the story got moving it was enjoyable - despite the editorial errors that littered the prose - however the opening pages are extremely verbose, and verging on the boring. I would recommend perseverence though - it is worth it in the end.
Determined to investigate, Billy is given a little over 24 hours before the Directors disperse, and recruits friends to help. In the process he is threatened, beaten up and gassed.
Once the story got moving it was enjoyable - despite the editorial errors that littered the prose - however the opening pages are extremely verbose, and verging on the boring. I would recommend perseverence though - it is worth it in the end.
March 26, 2013
The usual pleasant read about an ex-policeman becoming a private detective. A good read for anyone who like the genre.
As a writer I noted the lack of setting. Usually in these mystery/thriller/whodunnits the setting - a city or place or countryside form almost another character. Here there was very little setting. Almost as though the book had been written to cater for N American tastes by toning down the non-American things. Interesting
As a writer I noted the lack of setting. Usually in these mystery/thriller/whodunnits the setting - a city or place or countryside form almost another character. Here there was very little setting. Almost as though the book had been written to cater for N American tastes by toning down the non-American things. Interesting
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