Mord hat keine Tränen: Ein Fall für Jessica Campbell (edition 2011)

by Ann Granger (Author)

Series: Campbell & Carter (2)

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The second murderous installment of the Campbell and Carter Mysteries. When old Monty discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it's up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery. Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling manor house being generally unpleasant to everyone, even those relatives he actually likes. When his family and locals claim they've never seen the murder victim before Campbell smells a lie. With the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she will have to dig deep into the murky past of Monty and his family, all the way to the shocking truth.… (more)

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Title:	Mord hat keine Tränen: Ein Fall für Jessica Campbell
Authors:	Ann Granger (Author)
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Rack, Ruin, and Murder by Ann Granger

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3.5 stars. Great twist in the 2nd to the last paragraph! Love it! (

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anglophile65 | May 23, 2017 |

An old man, a bit of a recluse who drinks too much and who lives in a big old house that is going to rack and ruin around him, returns home from his daily walk to the village for his bottle of whiskey to find someone he doesn't know lying on his sofa. After some poking and prodding Monty determines that this unwelcome visitor is in fact dead.

With such a premise, and the humour involved in the dialogue when the police arrive to investigate, one cannot help but be drawn in to the mystery. Who is this man, and why is his body in the house, which is never locked. And who was using an upstairs bedroom as a trysting place, unbeknownst to the old man?

I enjoyed this mystery immensely, with its eccentric but very humanly real characters, and lots of humour in the telling of a serious and sad tale. Highly recommended. (

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Campbell & Carter 2

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Granger, Ann	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Boyd, Judith	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Rack, Ruin, and Murder

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2011-06-09

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Jess Campbell (Inspector)

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Cotswolds, England, UK

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Monty Bickerstaffe lurched along with his distinctive gait, his arms swinging by his sides.

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The second murderous installment of the Campbell and Carter Mysteries. When old Monty discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it's up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery. Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling manor house being generally unpleasant to everyone, even those relatives he actually likes. When his family and locals claim they've never seen the murder victim before Campbell smells a lie. With the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she will have to dig deep into the murky past of Monty and his family, all the way to the shocking truth.

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The discovery of a dead body shatters the tranquillity of a Cotswold village in Ann Granger's second Campbell and Carter mystery.

When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise – the first of many. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house and the last thing he wants is the police sniffing around his property. Not that he has anything to hide...

The identity of the corpse and how and why it was left in Monty’s home remain a mystery. The locals swear they’ve seen nothing unusual and Monty’s relatives claim they’ve never set eyes on the stiff before. But Inspector Jess Campbell is convinced that someone’s lying and, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig deep into Monty’s family history to reveal the shocking truth...

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