Dying Fall

Ackroyd and Thackeray #2

by Patricia Hall

A sequel to Death by Election. A high-rise council estate in Bradfield is the scene of a nightly outbreak of joy-riding, ending in the deaths of two teenagers, and a series of assaults on young girls. Laura Ackroyd, a local reporter, sees similarities between these events and a decade-old murder.

Genres: Mystery

248 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Patricia Hall is the pen-name of journalist Maureen O'Connor. She was born and brought up in West Yorkshire, which is where she has chosen to set her acclaimed series of novels featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. She is married, with two grown-up sons, and now lives in Oxford.

Reviews

[Alan Middlemass · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contrasts

Good story and well set out. Actually a love story that book 1 suggested but preamble very unsubtley signposted. But kept waiting until late in this book with reader teased by delays and obstructions of murder cases current and old.

Pity the back end is absolutely riddled with typing errors that change words into gibberish and a brief description of a victim going into an ambulance a whole day and several chapters out of sequence.

30+ years since it was published and not even digital has been corrected. Irritating end to enjoyable text.

[Emmeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great plot. Shame about the shocking lack of proofreading in the kindle version…

[Bill Cissna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is book two in the series -- I picked up what turned out to be book three, read it and liked it. Having now found and read books one and two, I'm enjoying the stories and the characters and look forward to reading more!

[Gary Van Cott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Satifactory. Similar to the first book.