Author: Raymond Flynn
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The corpse in the plastic sack is the perfect climax to Graham's bank holiday weekend: the east coast is sweltering under the August sun, the town is full of trippers and the deceased has been dumped on the busiest part of the beach.
Vincent Stanley Lowther was the kind of promising young low-life that no-one at Eddathorpe nick will miss. When Lowther's prostitute girlfriend reveals his double life as a welfare scrounger and his day job as a pimp, this is only the beginning of the revelations surrounding the life of a busy nineties entrepreneur.
As the enquiry develops, a discredited psychological profiler from the Midlands sniffs a connection with a series of undetected sex crimes committed elsewhere. The problem, as Graham's sceptical colleagues see it, centres round one inescapable fact: Lowther was undoubtedly a boy, the other victims were girls...
Loyalties become increasingly confused as Graham has to contend with a sniping campaign by a smooth-as-silk rival for promotion, a hostile press, an apparently unsympathetic CID chief and an investigation that refuses to throw up a convincing case against a killer.
And to make his life complete, Graham now has a reputation as a Jonah. Sleepy, sneaky Eddathorpe use to be peaceful until he arrived - now, according to some, it's becoming the murder capital of Europe. The town's tourist and information officer, not to mention the local business community, is far from pleased.
This book is part of the "An Eddathorpe Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Seascape With Body"
First published in 2013
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 | "A Public Body"
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