Brighton #08: Butcher's Wood

Brighton #08: Butcher's Wood
Peter Guttridge
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Hardback
h228 x 150mm - 192pg
30 Apr 2021 UK
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9780727850379
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A bloody death of an actress during a theatre show has DI Gilchrist and DS Heap investigate . . . but was it a bizarre accident or a deliberate attack? During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor into falling to his death from the stage. The source of the blood: Elvira Wright, the lead actress, has been bludgeoned by a lead weight used for opening the curtain. Meanwhile former Hollywood actress Nimue Grace is attracting attention from a notorious gangster. When she stumbles across something horrific in the aptly named Butcher' s Wood, she interprets it as a vicious message left for her. As Gilchrist and Detective Sergeant Bellamy Heap investigate, they find themselves running in circles. All the actors were disgruntled with the director of the play, Cat Pinter, and the way it was produced, but why would any of them target Elvira? And what is the meaning of the horrible discovery in Butcher' s Wood?

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Award-winning comic crime author Peter Guttridge turned from the Daft Side to the Dark Side for his Brighton mystery series, which started with City of Dreadful Night and continued most recently with The Lady of the Lake. He was also the Observer' s crime fiction critic for twelve years, and so has read far more crime fiction than is good for him. www. peterguttridge. com
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780727850379
Published: 30 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Severn House Publishers
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 228mm
Width: 150mm
Pages: 192

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