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    Laughing Boy: The engrossing Yorkshire crime series
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    Laughing Boy: The engrossing Yorkshire crime series

    By Stuart Pawson

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    Laura Heeley was just an average mother of two, but at the age of thirty-eight her life was swiftly taken from her, stabbed in the back on her way home from bingo. Colinette Jones was a popular, attractive and intelligent student, but she has been strangled, her body dumped on the roadside. What is the connection between the two victims? Detective Inspector Charlie Priest must solve the mystery, though with no clear motive and police movements constricted by foot-and-mouth disease, this proves an increasingly frustrating task. As the number of victims mounts, it becomes clear to Priest that this could be his biggest challenge yet...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateDec 19, 2011
    ISBN9780749011703
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    Laughing Boy: The engrossing Yorkshire crime series
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    Stuart Pawson

    STUART PAWSON had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He died in 2016.

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    • 4/5
      You always know where you are with Stuart Pawson: strong, plausible plots and empathetic characters. He doesn't rely upon quirky idiosyncrasies to carry the story and his main protagonist, Detective Inspector Charlie Priest, is immensely likeable. In this eighth outing Priest thinks he might be up against a serial killer, responsible for at least three murders in and around Heckley, the imaginary Yorkshire town where the series is set. As if this wasn't worrying enough it seems that the victims are being selected entirely at random. Priest finds himself summoned down to New Scotland Yard where he is advised that there might actually be a further three victims from a couple of years ago, all around Greater London. Priest and his team carry on their investigation against mounting odds. The resolution is very well-constructed, and the clues and pointers are all there. In fact, my only cavill against this novel was Pawson's major solecism in stating that the town of Loughborough, where one character lives, is in Nottinghamshire. As a Loughburian and proud Leicestershire man it was almost a struggle to carry on reading!But that was the only flaw. I don't think that this was Pawson's best book but that still leaves great scope for it to be rather better than the average crime novel, which this certainly was.
    • 5/5
      Charlie is assigned a murder case with few clues and discovers there may be a clever serial killer at large whose victims have no obvious common links. Cracking dialogue and characters allied with interesting Yorkshire locations and clever plotting keep the pages turning. Recommended.