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Shooting Elvis: The engrossing Yorkshire crime series
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Acting DCI Charlie Priest and his reliable crew at Heckley Police Headquarters are presented with a bizarre murder that leads to the discovery of low-tech industrial espionage. But is selling your employer's confidential records enough to warrant a particularly sadistic murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpires that the victim was an unprepossessing character who may have been chosen simply because of his physical appearance. Happily settled with his new girlfriend, Priest is able to throw himself wholeheartedly into his work. Unfortunately, all is not well in his team of hand-picked detectives, and old enmities begin to surface. Another victim is murdered in even more bizarre circumstances, and Charlie begins to wonder if he himself is a catalyst that motivates the killer. When his suspicions are confirmed he realises that he is embroiled in much more than the hunt for a murderer. And that the case has now become personal.
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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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Entertaining murder mystery as always. I fell for the red herring clue about the murderer's identity but did work out some of the final denouement from the clues provided.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5#11 in the series. DI Charlie Priest, "Mister One Hundred Per Cent", the scourge of murderers, and his team at Heckley are faced with a bizarre murder/suicide. The victim has been electrocuted but Charlie has doubts about whether he could have managed to do it himself. But is it a case of assisted suicide? Who on the other hand would want to kill Alfred Armitage? Or was it a case of mistaken identity? When a second strange case turns up Charlie begins to think there is a sort of public avenger at work. An interestingly constructed book - partly in the first person as Charlie Priest's stream of consciousness and partly in third person narrative, telling the readers things Charlie doesn't see or doesn't know. Interesting side plot as his new girlfriend Sonia, La Gazelle, former world-class athlete, regains her fitness.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another solid performance from Staurt Pawson, once more featuring the very Likeable Detective Inspector Charlie Priest. The book opens with the discovery of the body of Alfred Armitage, an old man who had been found electrocuted in his own home. The initial assumption is that he has committed suicide, but there are certain oddities that cause the police to look a little more deeply into Mr Armitage's past. It turns out that since the death of his wife a few years earlier he had taken to drinking heavily and had been prone to the occasional bigoted rant about the state of the country and his beliefs about the root of the problems. Just another pub bore, really (and I am all too familiar with them from the puib i used to frequent in Highgate!). However, despite the fairly modest circumstances of his small house and dowdy clothing, it transpires that he had over £340,000 in the bank.Priest and his team start to delve further until another murder occurs, this time of a lowlife character who had been a player in Heckley's criminal fringe. This murder has all the trappings of a vigilante's campaign, with the body strung up in a humiliating pose. Are the murders connected? And, if so, how?Pawson's books are always based in plausibility and the detective work to unravel these crimes is solid rather than spectacular. However, the effect is always pleasing, and this proves to be another creditable addition to the oeuvre.