Call The Dying 9780340838624 Paperback

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‘Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller’Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author ofThe Ashes of LondonandTheFire Court, this is the seventh instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesLove and need make unexpected bedfellows, and both are blind. As the grip of a long hard winter tightens on Lydmouth, a dead woman calls the dying in a seance behind net curtains. Two provincial newspapers are in the throes of a bitter circulation war. A lorry-driver broods, and an office boy loses his heart.Britain is basking in the warm glow of post-war tranquillity, but in the quiet town of Lydmouth, darker forces are at play. The rats are fed on bread and milk, a gentleman’s yellow kid glove is mislaid on a train, and something disgusting is happening at Mr Prout’s toyshop.Returning to a town shrouded in intrigue and suspicion, Jill Francis becomes acting editor of the Gazette. Meanwhile, there’s no pleasure left in the life of Detective Chief Inspector Richard Thornhill. Only a corpse, a television set and the promise of trouble to come.’Anexcellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyinglychilling’The Times’Themost under-rated crime writer in Britaintoday’Val McDermid’There isno denying Taylor’s talent, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries’Time Out