Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth

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Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth (USA 2012)

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In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London -- each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders by his supervisor at the Yard: solve the murders quickly and keep his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, away from the case! Thankfully, Daisy's off visiting their daughter at school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of it. As Daisy tries to solve one murder, Alec discovers that the three victims in his case were in the same Army company during World War I, that their murders are likely related to specific events that unfolded during that tragic conflict, and that, unless the killer is revealed and stopped, those three might only be the beginning.

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9781250002570 (January, 2012), 288 p., $15.99.

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
The very latest Daisy Dalrymple mystery will be snapped up by her many fans.
Alec Fletcher's plans to attend his daughter Belinda's school sports day are thwarted by the discovery of three bodies buried in Epping forest. Sent to investigate, he and his team are hindered from the start by uncooperative Essex policeman, DI Gant, who resents Scotland Yard encroaching on his patch. But a bigger problem, however, is identifying the victims and finding a common link between them to explain their being buried so close together, though at intervals of several months.

When Alec tells Daisy about the case, she's hooked, and with her own bit of digging around, uncovers the fact that one of the victims was a colonel. Is there a military connection? And when the police eventually discover that the other victims did serve with the colonel, this becomes a tragic case with its roots firmly buried in events during the Great War.

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Robinson, ISBN: 9781849015646 (April, 2011), 327 p., £6.99.

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth (USA 2011)

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9780312387761 (March, 2011), 288 p., $24.99.