| Title | : | The Missing Wife (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #2) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 |
| Publication | : | First published November 1, 2004 |
Within a short space of time another body is discovered, also choked to death. With no clues and little forensic evidence to go on, will quirky Yorkshire policeman Michael Angel's guile be enough to reveal the identity of the choker?
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.
MICHAEL ANGEL SERIES
Book 1: THE MISSING NURSE
Book 2: THE MISSING WIFE
Book 3: THE MAN IN THE PINK SUIT
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The Missing Wife (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #2) Reviews
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The second in the series about Detective Inspector Angel. Good story, although I guessed the murderer quite early on, I didn’t know why or how or how he was going to find the solution. I like the characters, although, having read the first book, Angel’s ‘sayings’, such as ‘you’re harder to find than Lord Lucan’ starts to wear a little thin. Having said that, I suppose it has to carry on because it’s part of his character. I liked the Cadet and hope he gets to take a bigger role in the investigations in some future book.
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A good story
The plot is good with a few twists but Angel still has an annoying turn of phrase. A wife is murdered and found in a reservoir. A host of characters are unexpectedly linked. Angel gets to the bottom of the mystery. -
Detective Angel is at it again and still searching for a spare cigarette. The story is that a woman's naked body is found in a weir. Angel suspects the husband, but this story has a few twists and turns.
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Decent characters, good writing, plot a bit simplistic, but all in all worth a read.
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Good plot and read it quite quickly Inspector Angel very non PC and quite annoying Would recommend
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The Missing Wife is book two in the Yorkshire Murder Mysteries series by Roger Silverwood. Detective Inspector Michael Angel caught a case of the death of the wife of a local MP, Sir Charles Millhouse. At first, it looked like a suicide until another body turned up. The readers of The Missing Wife will continue to follow Detective Inspector Michael Angel to find out what happens.
I enjoy reading books in this series, and The Missing Wife did not disappoint. I had no trouble engaging with the story or characters of this book from the first page. I times, I had to laugh at what the characters get up to throughout this book. The Missing Wife is well written and researched by Roger Silverwood. I love Roger Silverwood portrayal of the characters and their interaction with each other throughout this book. I like Roger Silverwood's description of the settings of the Missing Wife that allows me to imagine being part of the book's plot.
The readers of The Missing Wife will learn about the role of an antique dealer. Also, the readers of The Missing Wife will understand the problems children have when one parent remarries.
I recommend this book. -
A renowned MP's second wife has gone missing. They had been married for just 6 months. She was young, she was beautiful and he had everything to provide for her.
Her body has been recovered a few miles away in a creek, stark naked and left to rot in a stream.
DI Micheal Angel haa a lot to take in.
The MP has lost his first wife, is it to natural causes? Who is his son mixing with and why? Why was his friend dead in the alley!
The MP was so much in love with his wife, or was he.
A chase through the darkness of human relationships, of children and their father's, of revenge, of murder and of property disputes.
Silverwood has done a great job at keeping us guessing till the last moment and Detective Inspector Angel is so real-life a character that it hits close to home. A man who has to do the job, catch the killer, work against the clock, make the case stick and has well, like all of us, answer to a boss. His frustrations are our every day old frustrations, the anger, the muttering beneath our breaths, all too real. -
Another good read
The overall storyline and characters are good. The author’s ongoing over use of similes is the biggest negative. The craving for cigarettes is a bit off. I don’t remember him struggling m the first book. Still looking to be introduced to his wife. I don’t think she’s referenced at all or if she is very minimal.
The negatives are nothing that makes me not want to read more of the series. The positive of it being clean far outweighs the minor negatives. -
I uden this book to fall asleep for a while because I found it to be incredibly boring. I wanted to give the series the benefit of a doubt after the first book, but it was just not worth my money. Finally finished it and to me, it was an unsatisfactory read.
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Kinda fun
The characters will grow on you as time passes. I have great hope for a certain young cadet.
This was not a particularly cosy mystery, which is fine by me. -
This series is becoming a favourite of mine D.I. Angel his Witt and Mr Ahmed are quite funny
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British police procedural
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Not that interesting. Virtually no personal information about any of the detectives.
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An interesting story, but a few of the characterizations didn't match with the first book.
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Like him , love him or hate him. You can’t ignore him. The detective M Angel. Quirky but diligent a good laugh too many a times.
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A Yorshire mastpiec.e
Silverwood at his best. A real pleasure to read. Suspence and true Yorkshire humour intrinsic throughout makes a memorable read.
