The Language of the Dead: A World War II Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LCD7YK8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 169 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and Baltimore Magazine. He lives in Columbia, Maryland. . Stephen Kelly is an award-winning writer, reporter, editor and newspaper columnist. He has a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and has taught writing and journalism at Hopkins,
"Murders in wartime" according to Jill Meyer. Sometimes it's difficult to imagine people dying during wartime in ways other than battles, but deaths - natural or otherwise - are certainly on-going. In his debut novel, "The Language of the Dead: A WWII Mystery", Stephen Kelly looks at a village in Hampshire where death is delivered by hand and by airplane.In what I think might be the beginning of a mystery series, Kelly introduces the reader to a small village near Winchester, England, in 19Murders in wartime Jill Meyer Sometimes it's difficult to imagine people dying during wartime in ways other than battles, but deaths - natural or otherwise - are certainly on-going. In his debut novel, "The Language of the Dead: A WWII Mystery", Stephen Kelly looks at a village in Hampshire where death is delivered by hand and by airplane.In what I think might be the beginning of a mystery series, Kelly introduces the reader to a small village near Winchester, England, in 1940, where an old man has been found brutally murdered. Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb is call. 0, where an old man has been found brutally murdered. Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb is call. Stephen Kelly does an excellent job of capturing the tensions and overall feel of pam campbell Compelling plot line with plenty of twists. Stephen Kelly does an excellent job of capturing the tensions and overall feel of early WWII England. Class bias Nicely paced, interesting characters against the back drop of WWII Britain.Copy of book was bound upside down and backward--a challenge to read.
As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village.German bombers are arriving daily, seeking to crush England. But in a rural Hampshire village, things have remained fairly quiet—until an elderly loner, Will Blackwell, is brutally murdered. Do the killer’s motivations lie in the murky regions of the occult?. The method of his killing bears the hallmarks of the traditional vanquishing of a witch, and indeed, local legend claims that as a boy, Blackwell encountered a ghostly black dog sent from the devil, who struck a bargain for Blackwell’s soul.Not long after the murder, a young woman who is carrying the illegitimate child of a fighter pilot also is violently killed; then a local drunkard ends up in the race of an abandoned mill with the back of his head bashed in. As the Germans continue their relentless attack, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb rushes to solve the crimes
A very promising debut.” (Open Letters Monthly)“Readers of the wonderful Charles Todd series will recognize the premise of a former soldier-turned-cop affected by the war but debut novelist Stephen Kelly makes this novel both reassuring and fresh. Haunted by memories of the First World War reignited by the incessant air combat, Lamb follows a twisted trail of evidence including an emotionally disturbed boy''s cryptic drawings. Vivid. Recommended.” (Historical Novel Society)“Kelly does a good job of juxtaposing the subtle ways the tensions of the crimes combine in all the characters with the tensions of the times. Superb stuff!” (Craig Russell, international bestselling author of the Fabel and Lennox thriller series)“Kelly’s strong writing weaves these diverse strands into a cohesive whole. Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb, who’s haunted by his experiences in WWI, is a complex lead meriting further outings.” (Publishers W