
Death in the Spires
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Narrated by:
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Tom Lawrence
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By:
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KJ Charles
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The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby died. Was killed. Murdered.
1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. For Jeremy Kite, the crime not only stole his best friend, it destroyed his whole life. When an anonymous letter lands on his desk, accusing him of having killed Toby, Jem becomes obsessed with finally uncovering the truth.
Jem begins to track down the people who were there the night Toby died – a close circle of friends once known as the ‘Seven Wonders’ for their charm and talent – only to find them as tormented and broken as himself. All of them knew and loved Toby at Oxford. Could one of them really be his killer?
As Jem grows closer to uncovering what happened that night, his pursuer grows bolder, making increasingly terrifying attempts to silence him for good. Will exposing Toby's killer put to rest the shadows that have darkened Jem’s life for so long? Or will the gruesome truth only put him in more danger?
Some secrets are better left buried…
From the bestselling, acclaimed author of The Magpie Lord and The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen comes a chilling historical mystery with a sting in the tail. You won’t be able to put this gripping story down!
©2024 KJ Charles (P)2024 Storm PublishingKJ Charles delivers again!
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Over the 3 years of their studies, closer relationships form, causing strain and regret as well as attachments. Nicky, Toby's close friend and frequent critic, suffers from Toby's constant need for support, sympathy and comfort. The group stage Cymbeline, but the last performance is disrupted, and the cast fall out, temporarily it seems.
The rifts grow larger, one student is found murdered, just before finals, and the police do not finally identify a culprit.
Ten years later, a shocking anonymous letter arrives, leading to working class Jem, who never sat his finals, being sacked. In desperation, he sets out to solve the murder, drawing in, one by one, all his erstwhile friends, and interrogating them.
Needless to say, given that all of them know inwardly that the murderer was one of their group, reluctance, lies, misleading comments and deliberate withholding of what they separately knew, turns into violence. Will Jem find out the answer and put grief and anger to rest?
Oxford, dreams and death
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Enjoyable Story
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A good yarn
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We have superb senses both of place in Oxford (the college description was so familiar to my Cambridge experience that I assumed before looking it up that St Anselm's was a reall college!) and of our cast, and especially Jem.
Charles hauntingly builds the mystery up through the first half of the book, and the dénouement was immensely satisfying.
Wonderful mystery
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You absolutely must read this!
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Wie in den besten Mysteries sind Hinweise und Andeutungen zu den Intrigen und Geheimnissen der einzelnen Charaktere schon am Anfang der Geschichte eingearbeitete. Wundervoll zum mitfiebern und natürlich mit einer queeren Romanze. Außerdem werden ein paar moralische Fragen aufgeworfen, die wie ich persönlich finde, das Buch sehr zeitlos beantwortet :)
Wunderbar :)
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She has mentioned that ‘this one isn’t a romance novel.’ Well, I always recommend the Will Darling Adventures as spy novels so take from that etc.
Superb as ever from KJ Charles
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Gripping mystery with such likeable characters and setting
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Jeremy Kite is a disappointed man. Working class, queer, with a disability and a keen mathematical mind, Jem made it to Oxford. He was an outsider but to his astonishment, he was drawn into a circle of disparate, charming friends. Everything went swimmingly, until it didn't. One explosive evening changed everything, leaving one of their number dead. Now, a decade later, Jem's determined to discover what happened. Why his life since has been spent in limbo, a feeble phantom of the promise university life offered.
As he works to uncover the murderer, rumours and accusations swirl around inside Jem's head, each new theory seeming as plausible as the last. All his erstwhile friends apparently have their reasons to kill. Maybe. If Jem can force the killer out into the open, he thinks his life will restart.
KJ Charles spins a satisfyingly complex web, pushing you to view each character through a variety of lenses. And beware, there's a sting in the tail. A page-turner in the very best tradition.
A page-turner in the best tradition
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