Bøger udgivet af Beth Savoie

This is the first book in the Compton and Murray Mysteries series. The two detectives meet.Playing the wrong music can be murder. Recovering from events that have shaken his confidence as an officer and a father, Detective Inspector Jacob Murray has come to Canterbury to rebuild his career. Newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matthew Compton does his best to avoid the guilt of what occurred while he attended Christ Church University despite living in the shadow of the campus. Neither detective is sure of who they can trust-especially each other. When a cellist is brutally murdered at the University, the only clue is a musical score by Tchaikovsky. The detectives are forced to put aside the past and learn to work together to discover who killed the musician.

The past deciphers the future. After making wrong decisions with his first murder investigation, Detective Matthew Compton is glad to still have his position as sergeant. Now he has a string of assaults on prostitutes, and his only lead: cryptic lines from a Medieval book of the dead.Even though DS Compton saved his life in his previous case, Detective Inspector Jacob Murray needs someone less complicated as his second. Now he has a new sergeant, multiple murders, and clues written in a language he can't decipher.At first the cases appear unrelated, but as the detectives follow the clues, they find their cases become intertwined on both a criminal and personal level.Will they be able to put aside past differences to stop a killer before someone close to them becomes the next victim?