Rack, Ruin and Murder

Written by Ann Granger

Narrated by Judith Boyd

The second murderous installment of the Campbell and Carter Mysteries.

When old Monty discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it's up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling manor house being generally unpleasant to everyone, even those relatives he actually likes. When his family and locals claim they've never seen the murder victim before Campbell smells a lie.

With the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she will have to dig deep into the murky past of Monty and his family, all the way to the shocking truth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Aug 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781515942672

Ann Granger

Ann Granger is a British author of cozy crime. Born in Portsmouth, England, she went on to study at the University of London. She has written over thirty murder mysteries, including the Mitchell & Markby Mysteries, the Fran Varady Mysteries, the Lizzie Martin Mysteries and the Campbell and Carter Mysteries. Her books are set in Britain, and feature female detectives, murderous twists and characters full of humor and color.

Reviews for Rack, Ruin and Murder

[anglophile65 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3.5 stars. Great twist in the 2nd to the last paragraph! Love it!

[nipf-2 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Das Buch fängt gut an und auch das Ende ist überraschend und nicht ohne Reiz. Aber die Figuren blieben merkwürdig blass und zweidimensional. Ich bin nicht sicher, ob ich nochmal ein Buch dieser Reihe lesen möchte.

[scrabblenut · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An old man, a bit of a recluse who drinks too much and who lives in a big old house that is going to rack and ruin around him, returns home from his daily walk to the village for his bottle of whiskey to find someone he doesn't know lying on his sofa. After some poking and prodding Monty determines that this unwelcome visitor is in fact dead.With such a premise, and the humour involved in the dialogue when the police arrive to investigate, one cannot help but be drawn in to the mystery. Who is this man, and why is his body in the house, which is never locked. And who was using an upstairs bedroom as a trysting place, unbeknownst to the old man?I enjoyed this mystery immensely, with its eccentric but very humanly real characters, and lots of humour in the telling of a serious and sad tale. Highly recommended.