A Shortcut to Murder is set after Britain has lost its American colonies and just as the war with Revolutionary France has begun. People are uncertain about the future and are being forced to face up to a period of social and political turmoil. That gives it a contemporary resonance. Third in a series charting the life of this doctor and his involvement in different types of mysteries.
The Book has been self-published via Amazon and is available as eBook - 219 pages - released in October 2016.
About the Book
Dr. Adam Bascom is faced with his toughest case so far—the murder of Sir Jackman Wennard by means of a faked riding accident. He encounters an impossible crime and a mass of conflicting evidence, not helped by the hostility of the dead man’s son, who refuses even to discuss his father’s death.
All this along with growing emotional conflicts as well as factual ones. Then drama turns into crisis. Everything known about Sir Jackman Wennard and his family is thrown into confusion by an event from the man’s past. The Wennard family fragments, his son is reported kidnapped and the whole neighbourhood is plagued by a rash of daring highway robberies.
As events plunge out-of-control towards the inevitable confrontation between past and present, can Adam pull his ideas together and move fast enough to prevent more lives being put at risk?
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "It was a great book, the ending not at all what I expected. This is the first 'Dr Bascom' book I have read and the characters are very interesting.[...]" - Lindsay Hill
- "[...] The main character, Dr. Adam Bascom, practices medicine in Aylsham, a small town in Norwich. His closest friend, and the person off of whom he bounces ideas, is Peter Lassimer, a pharmacist and a confirmed ladies’ man. Indeed, Dr. Bascom’s unmarried status is the subject of many of their interchanges and a thread running through this book, as in the first two, but with more intensity.[...] I enjoyed this book as much as the previous one and would recommend it to anyone who likes historical mysteries." - Amazon Customer
About the Author
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| Author William Savage |
One of his other loves is history, especially the local history of the many places where he has lived. It seemed natural to put the two together. Thus began two series of murder mystery books set in Norfolk.
Four books have appeared so far and he is currently at work on a fifth. All are set in the 18th century.
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