Detectives investigate a murder at an exclusive block of exp gives flats.
This came to me in an email from Amazon and as it was a short story and by such a distinguished author, I downloaded it.
The writing is extremely sharp as we follow two detectives into a high rise multi story block of flats. Inside they find the night shift security porter lying dead in reception.
The two detectives, Gish and Milton begin their enquires looking into the lives of the small bunch of residents who live there. All of them important people and some with secrets they don’t want to share.
The only thing I didn’t like is there were no chapters, therefore no place to stop and start. With eighty six pages, it needed them.
I enjoyed this tale, it was concise and easy to read. I loved that it was a quick read and that it was in Kindle Unlimited. I recommend this book and it’s get the full five stars.
Blurb
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive high-rise—and every resident is a suspect.
The Rise is a gleaming residential tower, newly constructed from steel and blackened glass, that stands on some of London’s most prestigious real estate. Looming imposingly over Hyde Park, only multi-millionaires need apply for one of its sumptuous apartments. But when the young night concierge is found murdered in the building’s lobby, the elite residents quickly find their gilded lifestyles under unwelcome police scrutiny.
Investigating officer DS Gish has her work cut out. The only suspects, those who live in the building, aren’t accustomed to police interrogation. But it seems horribly certain that one of them must be the killer. Could it be the Russian oligarch? Or the lonely actress? Maybe it’s the family of the career criminal? Or perhaps it’s the building’s reclusive developer who lives alone in the penthouse?
Obstructed continually by locked doors, governments both foreign and domestic, and an apparent absence of motive, can DS Gish solve this impenetrable mystery and apprehend the murderer—before they slip away forever?
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