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Odden Karen - Down A Dark River - Paperback
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Description: London 1878. One April morning a small boat bearing a young woman's corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert daughter of a prominent judge the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly Corravan abandons his ongoing case a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate handing it over to his young colleague Mr. Stiles. An Irish former bare - knuckles boxer and dockworker from London's seedy East End Corravan has good street sense and an inspector's knack for digging up clues. But he's confounded when a week later a second woman is found dead in a rowboat and then a third. The dead women seem to have no connection whatsoever. Meanwhile Mr. Stiles makes an alarming discovery: the shipping magnate's missing wife Mrs. Beckford may not have fled her house because she was insane as her husband claims and Mr. Beckford may not be the successful man of business that he appears to be. Slowly it becomes clear that the river murders and the case of Mrs. Beckford may be linked through some terrible act of injustice in the past - for which someone has vowed a brutal vengeance. Now with the newspapers once again trumpeting the Yard's failures Corravan must dredge up the truth - before London devolves into a state of panic and before the killer claims another innocent victim.
Title: Down A Dark River
Author(s): Odden Karen
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Barcode: 9781639107230
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Crime & Mystery
Description: London 1878. One April morning a small boat bearing a young woman's corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert daughter of a prominent judge the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly Corravan abandons his ongoing case a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate handing it over to his young colleague Mr. Stiles. An Irish former bare - knuckles boxer and dockworker from London's seedy East End Corravan has good street sense and an inspector's knack for digging up clues. But he's confounded when a week later a second woman is found dead in a rowboat and then a third. The dead women seem to have no connection whatsoever. Meanwhile Mr. Stiles makes an alarming discovery: the shipping magnate's missing wife Mrs. Beckford may not have fled her house because she was insane as her husband claims and Mr. Beckford may not be the successful man of business that he appears to be. Slowly it becomes clear that the river murders and the case of Mrs. Beckford may be linked through some terrible act of injustice in the past - for which someone has vowed a brutal vengeance. Now with the newspapers once again trumpeting the Yard's failures Corravan must dredge up the truth - before London devolves into a state of panic and before the killer claims another innocent victim.
Title: Down A Dark River
Author(s): Odden Karen
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Barcode: 9781639107230
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Crime & Mystery
