Brief Description –
I now realise that in these stories, it doesn’t start with a murder as so many do. Instead, we get to know a whole set of characters, and just before the middle of the book, one gets killed off.
Can a fight between grown men be funny? Yes, if it involves DCI Harry Grimm. The humour is in the ridiculousness of the situations they find themselves in. I love the mix of humour and the deadly serious situations they encounter.
Deaths Requiem involves a musician who returned to the small Yorkshire town to reacquaint himself with the friends he grew up with. We get to know them all, their quirks, their goals and enough to have opinion on whether we like them. Then murder strikes.
Another great instalment of the great man that is Harry Grimm whose change of life circumstances really suites him.
Highly recommended.
Blurb
A famous singer. Homicide by hanging. Can this investigator stop an encore performance of murder?
The rugged hills and dales have finally found their way into DCI Harry Grimm’s heart. Having accepted a permanent position, he’s concentrating on building his team and keeping them focused on solving cases with painstaking police work. But he’s pulled into a classical vocalist’s world of dark secrets when the superstar chorist is brutally killed.
With the body discovered gruesomely suspended from a church tower, Grimm and his cops are confronted by walls daubed in satanic symbols. But as he digs deep to uncover the connection between the occult and the sensational slaying, he fears the killer may be about to make more bloody sacrifices.
Can the gruff detective solve the senseless crime before another victim is singing with the angels?
Death’s Requiem is the sinister sixth book in the DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers series. If you like wonderfully developed characters, Northern English countryside settings, and intelligent conundrums, then you’ll love David J. Gatward.
Other Books in the Series
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