A sinister link between the disappearance of a young college girl and a series of murders of vagrants poses a daunting challenge in this fourth mystery featuring Chief Inspector Morrissey and the Malminster CID. On Pel's Copse, near the college of Brindley, two foxes court - and they are the first to witness the chilling murders that horrify the village of Malminster. Desperate homeless men are the first to die at the hands of a cold killer with a cruel grudge and an uncanny ability to erase all clues. When a popular girl is found drowned in a frozen lake, soon followed by a faculty member with a checkered romantic past, CI Morrissey suspects that beyond the familiar faces of professors, tutors, and students lurks a relentless psychopath.
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A serial killer is at work in this eerie mystery, disemboweling homeless men in the small Yorkshire college town of Malminster. Although Chief Inspector Morrissey, stressed both at home and on the job, is thinking of leaving the force, he musters his deductive skills to find the psychopath responsible. After the bodies of two young women, both associated with the college and both with tumultuous love lives, are found at the bottom of the lake, Morrisey wonders whether he should be looking for one killer or two. He deploys his entire staff, a well-defined crew of ambitious, politically astute policemen, and their progress is thoroughly engrossing. Meanwhile, Morrissey discovers that three of the murdered men were associated in some way with a psychiatric outpatient clinic that had ties to the college. The story suffers some from being chopped a bit too finely into short scenes from many different points of view (including one disquieting first-person voice that may belong to a killer); but Mitchell (Roots of Evil) keeps a secret well, and the answers unfold gradually and forcefully.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Another excellent adventure of Chief Morrissey,
This review is from: A Portion For Foxes: A Chief Inspector Morrissey Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
The whole series is a lot of fun to read--the characters are not perfect lending a sense of reality to the stories. You find yourself wishing Chief Morrissey would do the right thing by his family; wanting him to get a break from his job so that he can set things right. He is a hero, but not a perfect one, as are his colleagues and family. Kay Mitchell also writes under Sarah Lacey--a light-hearted funny set of mysteries that are also worth the read!!!
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