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Gallows Court

Rachel Savernake, Book 1

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London, 1930. A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city, and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake. Daughter of a grand judge, Rachel is as glamorous as she is elusive.

Jacob Flint, a tenacious young journalist eager to cover the gruesome crimes, is drawn into Rachel's glittering world of wealth and power. But as the body count continues to rise, Jacob is convinced Rachel is harbouring a dark secret, and he soon becomes part of a dangerous game that could leave him dancing at the end of the hangman's rope if he pursues the truth.

©2018 Martin Edwards (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense
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I really enjoyed the start of this story and the end but honestly there was some really flabby stuff in the middle.

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A wonderfully complicated pair of plots unravel through a compelling narrative. The first of, so far, two Flint/Savernake stories. Very dark - not one for fans of cosy crime!

Brilliant!

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...the narration lets it down. So many characters and so hard to distinguish between them.

Enjoyed the story but...

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Excessively complicated plot which left me struggling to finish the story. The narration was poor so the characters ( of which there are lots) never came to life.
Not enjoyed at all.

Complicated plot

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This was billed and reviewed as a kind of Christie, Sayers Golden age detective fiction. It really isn't. It falls into the trap that so many modern authors do when trying to write a book set in and of the time, but spend too much time describing things no author writing at the time would do. In most cases needlessly.

Also, I didn't really like any of the characters in it. The main character spends a lot of his time pondering things and worrying, the main female character is deliberately mysterious to the point of being annoying.

It does have a twist that was unexpected, but still, it felt like a slog to get to the end.

Not really as billed

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