An Instrument of Slaughter by Edward Marston

An Instrument of Slaughter

Home Front Detective #2

Edward Marston

350 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
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1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death. Public sympathy is lukewarm for conscientious objectors with some people even claim that a conchie de...

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