John Barber

The Cricket Club Murders (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The first victim was 'Chalkie' White found with a cricket stump pierced through his heart in the Old Rutherfordians Cricket Club practice nets. Sergeant Archie Tibble was the first to mention vampires, but not the last. Detective Inspector Steve Winwood was not impressed.

The second victim was Charlotte Lamb found on the centre pitch naked and strangled with an Old Rutherfordians tie but not before drinking a cocktail popularly known as a silver bullet. Thoughts of werewolves started to ciculate.

Winwood did not believe in vampires or werewolves but the third victim Bank Manger John Cash was killed with a dish of takeaway duck heavily laced with garlic and rat poison.

There was no obvious connection between all three until the body of Hilary Ackroyd, Chaiman of the Board of Trustees of Rutherford Museum was seen to be carried away in an ambulance having been electrocuted.

Arthur Conley better known as Noah for his restoration work on the Museum after a flood was convinced he was the real target

In the background was local millionaire businessman Derek Stilllman, who runs a software security business and Cameron Walsh a clerk at the bank that holds Stillman's account. Then six million pounds went missing and Winwood found himself working with Bank Inspector Anna Trent who opened up whole new financial worlds.

Winwood was immediately cheered by the emergence of an old fashioned crime that had no connection with the supernatural, the letter 'C' or a pack of Happy Families playing cards.

The trail led to the most unassuming person in town who had flown under everyone's radar, themselves unaware how they had managed to convince everyone else that they were a vampire slayer.

Note: For those unfamiliar with the game most references to cricket are explained in the text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301923779
• Artikelnr.: 48744014

Autorenporträt

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.