John Barber

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The Naked Cellist (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #8) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The reason for the first Rutherford Arts Festival was as much a mystery to Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood as to everyone else. Rutherford had no claims to be the centre of the Arts. Steve did not like mysteries which was a strange thing for a detective to admit to. It did not get off to a good start when Edwin Searchfield a well respected music teacher was found dead under a painting of a naked female cellist on the evening of the VIP preview evening to launch the Festival. Then strange accidents began to befall members of the Art Society and those connected to it. Steve's superiors wanted him to concentrate on being the Police Liaison Officer for the Festival. This was not easy as the Festival Organiser John Charlesworth had never organised a festival before and accepted solo acts or group activities that somehow fitted the Festival remit of 'New Worlds'. Maggs Holdgate the reporter for the major sponsor, the Rutherford international News Group reviewed every act from the orchestra that couldn't play and the painting that appeared to be a blank canvas, or maybe not. After two more deaths amongst the Art Society in suspicious circumstances Steve believes the clue to the mayhem may be in the identity of the female naked cellist. Detective Sergeant Emma Porter solves that problem with a surprising result and the person behind all the strange accidents that have occurred. However the biggest mystery of all is who is behind the Government grant for a doomed to fail Arts Festival and why. The answer to that is close to home. The Chief Constable is quick to commend Steve but he is still unsure who the good guys are despite assurances that both they and himself are on the side of the angels.

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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370726219
• Artikelnr.: 70721182