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Death Holds The Key

$29.99

By Alexander Thorpe

When loathed landholder Fred O’Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help from a mysterious wanderer to solve the case. And it’s one where everyone, including O’Donnell’s family, has a motive and a secret to keep.

Featuring the mendicant monk from Thorpe’s previous novel, Death Leaves the Station, readers will be drawn into the world of small-town Western Australia in the late 1920s, delighting in the characters as they navigate the strained sensibilities and dark secrets of the past.

Full of twists and turns, this seemingly impossible murder mystery is cosy crime writing at its finest.

Read Anita McInness’s review for ARR.News:
Reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s detective novels and detective dramas such as Midsomer Murders, Thorpe’s novel will draw readers in with its twists and turns.

ISBN: 9781760992910
Format: Paperback 20.5x13.8cm
Pages: 288
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Fremantle Press

 

About the author:

Alexander Thorpe is from Fremantle, Western Australia. He has written advertising copy for pool cleaners and concrete supply companies, taught English in Joseph Stalin's hometown and almost managed to read half of James Joyce's Ulysses twice (which is more or less the same as having almost managed to read the whole book). Alex has written for news outlets, travel journals, marketing companies and educational providers. Death Holds the Key is his second novel.