| Title | : | The Morals of a Murderer (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #4) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2005 |
Yet none of the suspects is burly enough to have delivered the fatal blow. Detective Inspector Michael Angel is called in to unravel the mystery.
He proves to be even more in demand when jailbird and bank robber Morris Yardley tries to buy his freedom with the proceeds of his last heist, insisting Angel acts as his go-between.
An old lady in a sweetshop, a dog called Schwarzenegger and a whiff of menthol all have their part to play as Angel races to reveal the murderer in this unusual and enthralling mystery.
Perfect for fans of R.D. Wingfield, Colin Dexter, Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill, and Agatha Christie.
THE DETECTIVE
Michael Angel is over fifty, married to Mary. They don’t have any children. They are a devoted couple but the relationship sometimes breaks down due to his job or due to the problems of Mary’s sister who lives in Edinburgh and imposes on their easygoing natures. Michael works at the small local police station and is devoted to defeating crime, murder, and dishonesty of any sort and has no personal ambition beyond being a good husband and a successful detective. He doesn’t want promotion with all the routine office work and stress that goes with it. He is incorruptible but always short of money. He is always at odds with his immediate chief, Detective Superintendent Horace Harker, who is lazy, a hypochondriac and not a bit interested in assisting Angel in serious police work.
THE SETTING
Bromersley is a market town at the bottom of the Pennines surrounded by stone and hawthorn-edged fields grazed by cattle and sheep. It is cold as anywhere in the winter but its closeness to the mountains protects it from many gales and heavy falls of snow. The town’s industry today includes the manufacture of ball bearings and whisky bottles, and a huge brewery produces Bromersley’s best bitter, which is considered the finest beer for miles around. Wednesday is market day, and the town centre is host to the frequent cries of stall-holders hawking their wares while the enticing smells of cheeses, coffees, foreign spices and fish and chips tempt your taste buds as you wander through the stalls. The police always find it difficult to catch pilferers and pickpockets in such a crowd. Bromersley folk are easy to befriend but many of the old people are stubborn and still buy their fruit and veg in pounds and ounces, not kilos and grams.
Praise for Roger Silverwood
“Solid plotting, unpretentious writing, thoroughly reliable entertainment>/b>.” Morning Star
“A cast of characters you really want to populate with familiar faces of actors you see each week on TV — great fun. Angel is terrific.” Books Monthly
DETECTIVE ANGEL SERIES
Book 1: THE MISSING NURSE
Book 2: THE MISSING WIFE
Book 3: THE MAN IN THE PINK SUIT
Book 4: THE MORALS OF A MURDERER
Book 5: THE AUCTION MURDERS
Book 6: THE MISSING
The Morals of a Murderer (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #4) Reviews
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Loved It!
This is the fourth book in the DI Angel series. I have thoroughly enjoyed every one of them. The mystery is fantastic. The characters are likable. And there is no bad language anywhere. If you want a wonderful mystery, read this series! You won’t be disappointed. -
Another fun outting.
This has been a most enjoyable mystery. While some readers may solve one of the crimes, I think the other might prove elusive. To me, a large part of the enjoyment is how Angel does it! Loved the characters in this one too! -
The Chairman of Imperial Gin is found murdered and stuffed inside a vat of his own fine produce. He was just short of his fiftieth birthday and his Board consisted of old men over 70s and 80s not strong enough to kill him. Also killing him wouldn't solve their issues.
But DI Michael Angel could not concentrate on the murder, he was summoned by his Superintendent to assist a Special Branch Investigation involving the missing 820 bars of gold from the Bank of Agara. The crown Prince of Agara is extremely pissed off at the non-recovery, threatening major international political upheavals if the money isn't recovered. And even though the man behind the scheme is safe inside the prison, he won't open his mouth to anyone except Angel.
Angel doesn't like this one bit and he doesn't want to make promises that he knows will not be kept but he is pressurized officially (and don't we all know how that is done) to do what he didn't want to. Give a false hope to the prisoner but the man escapes the 5 tracking cars, the Special Team leader and the helicopter hovering upwards and vanishes into thin air. Angel finds out where 820 bara could have been hidden but they were emptied already.
So the man was away and the fact that he had murdered a policeman during his arrest was put to bed. Angel could finally concentrate on the murder at hand and he does. Based on just a smell of menthol and a lightweight spanner. But he soon hears from the disappeared man, who has been appointed as the police chief of Agara and has averted the international crisis with his persuasion and now wants to honour Angel for the service and honesty..... He might be a murdered but he is one with morals(!!!!)
Silverwood has done a great job in not just creating and solving the murder mystery but also intertwining them with a man's duty to be a superior and a juniors; to do things he doesn't believe in because it's just his duty to do so, to be a husband, to be compassionate and caring, to be torn between right and wrong, to have a 'moral'. His books are interesting because of the way the characters evolve in his book, not out of the world but like actual human beings. -
Another great Detective Inspector Michael Angel book!
As we've come to expect, it has all the clever story lines - that slowly unravel, until it all comes together in the end.
The old fashioned feel of DI Angel, with his unshakable morales & no nonsense ways. Have yet again made for a thoroughly enjoyable book.
So I'm straight onto the next one - The Auction Murders, with the excitement of a child on Christmas day!! -
Although I enjoyed previous books, this one did not ,,it was a good story but something about it seemed off, just not for me
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I thought this book was a bit contrived.
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Being Honest is a mangle of 3 plots: a murder, a heist, and a third 'plot' with no clear purpose other than filler. In Honest, Mick Angel turns bellicose: he bellows, he bawls, he snarls and when he wasn't bellowing, etc, he was sweating, shaking, panicking. There's even an attempt to implicate him in the heist by an unsavory superior. It ends with someone getting away with murder. A marginal read.
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Good story with cool twist at the end. :-)
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The Yorkshire Murder Mysteries series continues to be good.
Not much to say, there are a couple main plots the are the interwoven and work well.The characters are likable
