The Insanity of Murder
by Felicity Young
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GENRE: Mystery
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BLURB:
To
Doctor Dody McCleland, the gruesome job of dealing with the results of an
explosion at the Necropolis Railway Station is testing enough. But when her suffragette
sister Florence is implicated in the crime, matters worsen and Dody finds her
loyalty cruelly divided. Can she choose between love for her sister and her
secret love for Chief Inspector Matthew Pike, the investigating officer on the
case?
Dody and Pike's
investigations lead them to a women's rest home where patients are not
encouraged to read or think and where clandestine treatments and operations are
conducted in an unethical and inhumane manner. Together Dody and Pike must
uncover such foul play before their secret liaisons become public knowledge -
and before Florence becomes the rest home's next victim.
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Excerpt:
Florence sprang up from her dressing-table chair and rushed
to her bed, throwing herself face down upon her pillow. Her emotions spilled as
if from a burst floodgate, the bones of her back visible through the thin
fabric of her chemise, rising and falling with each gasp.
‘All right, I did it, I did it,’ she sobbed.
It was all very well to have suspicions, but to hear them
confirmed thus changed everything. The shock of the admission felt like a blow
to Dody’s chest, a physical pain. As she closed her eyes and prayed for
strength, angry thoughts buzzed around her head like disturbed bees in a hive.
Steeling herself as best she could, she sat on the edge of
the bed. She must not let her anger show. She must remain calm for Florence’s
sake, offer her support and then suggest the most honest course of action —
that Florence turn herself in and throw herself on the mercy of the courts.
Florence spoke first. ‘Every time I close my eyes I see that
night watchman’s face. He caught us just after we’d planted the bomb. He tried
to put his hand on me and I threw him to the ground. He hit his head.’
‘You managed to throw a grown man to the ground?’
Florence ignored the incredulity in Dody’s voice. ‘We knew
the bomb would blow any minute and dragged him behind the convenience block
outside the station. We stayed with him until the authorities arrived, then
made our escape before we were seen by anyone.’ She paused to draw a shaking
breath. ‘If I could save him by surrendering myself to the authorities, I
would.’ She sat up in the bed and took the handkerchief Dody offered. ‘I really
would — but it won’t make any difference to him now, will it?’
‘No, I suppose it won’t,’ Dody said, chewing her bottom lip.
‘But it would offer his family some form of justice.’
Florence appeared not to hear Dody’s last remark, as if
still fixated on the scene in her head. It must be a relief to talk the whole
ghastly incident through with someone, Dody thought.
‘And all those bodies … it was a horrible mistake that
should never have happened,’ Florence said.
‘Who was your partner? You seem to have been left to face
the consequences.’
She lifted her chin with some of her usual spirit. ‘I will
never reveal my accomplice’s name. ’
‘But you will turn yourself in, won’t you?’
Florence swallowed. She shook her head.
‘But you have to.’
‘I received a note from Christabel. On no account am I to
admit to this disaster. This incident has apparently been an embarrassment to
them.’
‘For goodness sake, Florence, you mean they will take no
responsibility for this atrocity at all?’
‘No,’ she said, with an amazing absence of rancour.
Dody wanted to throttle her sister. How could she brush this
betrayal off so easily? Her dedication to the cause had made her quite blind to
its dark side. Dody jumped up from the bed and began to pace.
‘I suppose you’ll tell Pike now,’ Florence said with a sigh.
‘I’ll deny it, of course.’
Dody said nothing. Her agitated footsteps bounced the
floorboards and made the scent bottles on the dressing table tremble.
‘So where does this leave you?’ Florence added, finally.
‘Between Scylla and Charybdis,’ Dody muttered under her
breath as she continued to pace. And think.
Not realizing this is part of a series, I felt a little lost. Not that the book wasn't good cause believe me I loved it! It's the fact that I like reading series in order to fully be able to appreciate the author's work. But if you do like me and read this book first, you will love the development that is behind the cover, the characters as well as the story line. Now with saying this, it's time to go catch up on the beginning of the series...
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I was born in
Germany and educated at an English boarding school while my parents travelled
the world with the British army. I think the long boring plane trips home
played an important part in helping me to develop my creative imagination.
I settled with
my parents in Western Australia in 1976, became a nurse, married young and had
three children. Not surprisingly, it took ten years to complete an Arts degree
(English lit) at UWA.
In 1990 my
family and I moved to a small farm 40 kilometers NE of Perth (Western Australia)
where I established a Suffolk sheep stud, reared orphan kangaroos and embarked
upon a life of crime writing.
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