#10 Richard Jury

The Old Silent

Martha Grimes
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Feeling burned out, Jury takes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell’s reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives—and twisted lives....
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeBritish LiteratureAudiobookMystery ThrillerDetectiveThrillerCozy MysteryMusic
396 Pages

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