Courting Danger
A Bob Robbins Home Front Mystery. (Book
3)
Wartime rural police procedural.
Cornwall, England, 1943. Dumpy, grumpy wartime Detective Segreant Bob Robbins is called out to investigate a suspicious death in a remote moorland pool. Gogmagog Ditch has a history steeped in Cornish folklore, but what attracted the victim to such a desolate spot and why?
The victim, Dr Corin Lanyon, was liked by all and loved by many – especially women. As Bob untangles his various relationships and close connection to a Celtic Circle heritage group, he confirms the doctor’s death was no accident.
Ably assisted by keen young PC Laurie Oliver, Bob reveals a web of criminality, deceit, stolen museum artefacts – and various persons of interest.
The discovery of a second apparently unharmed
body in an ancient stone circle means Bob and Laurie must learn
how the murders were committed, starting with another visit to the
bleak moorland pool, and the discovery of a sacred cave in a hollow
hill.
Reviews
An excellent crime novel It's Cornwall, England, 1943. As the war rages, with Nazi bombs routinely dropping nearby, a dumpy, grumpy wartime Detective Sergeant, Bob Robbins, who wants nothing more than to retire and watch birds, is called in to investigate a strange death. A young aspiring doctor is found dead in a pond in the open moors. Robbins and his new associate, Laurie, start to investigate and the clues lead them down a strange path of Celtic rituals, sordid affairs, greed and lust. Detective Robbins could be a brother to Columbo, the American crime investigator, with his sometimes off-putting commentary, dry humor and most importantly, an indelible questioning mind that will not be satisfied with anything but the absolute truth. This book is entertaining in so many ways, as we are pulled into Robbin's mind and how, piece by piece, he solves the mystery, but also the way the author draws us into the pastoral, almost timeless ambience of a British rural community, where everyone knows everyone, and everything, where rumors abound, where secrets are plenty, and where a crime investigator, like Robbins, must pry them out of people who guard them with their very lives. This is quality writing and an excellent story in this series. Réal Laplaine for IWIC