The Glass Wall
A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an old woman with a mysterious past, who could not get out of bed by herself.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings and Sergeant Rosemary Zycynski lead the investigation. Searching for a link between a teenage drug victim, a missing care assistant, and an unidentified corpse, they discover further mysteries behind the glass wall of the penthouse. Other lives are threatened and the circle of menace widens to involve the dead woman's unhappily married doctor and estranged granddaughter.
Clare Curzon's latest mystery masterfully unpicks the events and motives that lead toward the apparent murder of a woman already mortally frail. Her brilliantly fast-paced style keeps the pages turning as the chilling truth is gradually revealed.
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At the start of Curzon's intelligently contrived 12th Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2005's The Last to Leave), a Filipino bartender named Ram n watches in horror as the body of wealthy 94-year-old invalid Emily Withers plummets from her high-rise apartment in an unnamed town outside London. Curzon reveals Emily's story bit by tantalizing bit via a large cast of characters, both sympathetic and unsavory, including her great-niece, Alyson Orme; her doctor, Keith Stanford; and Sheena Judd, an unreliable nurse's aide. A bewildering array of false scents and red herrings keep Thames Valley Supt. Mike Yeadings and DS Rosemary Zyczynski hopping. Curzon blends solid police work with skillfully drawn minor characters whose actions, often unintentionally, complicate the investigation.
