When art dealer Ivan Fielding is found dead of a heart attack in his home, surrounded by the treasures he’s collected all his life, it doesn’t initially seem like a case for Detective Inspector Frost and the Denton police force. But then signs of a burglary are discovered, and Frost senses there’s more to the story than meets the eye – even though the only thing taken was a worthless amateur painting.
Then a young girl is abducted outside the school, an infamous gangster fresh from prison arrives in the area, and dead bodies start turning up in the woods. As Frost and his team dig deeper, everything seems to lead back to Ivan Fielding’s murky lifetime of misdeeds.
Will they find the answers they need before the dead man’s past puts them all at risk?
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Mon, 9 Dec 2019 | Review
by: Breakaway R.
A crime novel packed full of intrigue which offers a characterisation of the criminal mind and presents the psychotic thirst for wealth.
An antique dealer turned drunken loner, is found dead on his couch. Cause of death - a heart attack. Detective Inspector Jack Frost is not convinced. It seems that top brass wants the case closed without too much digging.
Longthorn hospital and an orderly is increasing the level of morphine being intravenously fed to a convicted criminal. The orderly is mousy, inconspicuous. He knows how to fade into life, to go unnoticed. His motive is to get the dying man talking. Around the same time, Ivan Fielding is found dead sitting upright on his couch, clean-shaven and smartly dressed sporting a blue polka dot cravat – contrary to the dishevelled, derelict drunk his daughter and granddaughter have come to find at Glen Gables.
After Frost discovers jewellery by Cartier and oil paintings circa 1800, under the floorboards of Glen Gables, he launches into an investigation much to the chagrin of his super. Frost is absorbed in the case, but when Jimmy McVale turns up in Denton it does not go unnoticed. After 17 years in prison, the hardcore criminal has changed his ways, written a book and surfaced from a journey of self-improvement. Allegedly, McVale is linked to the ’67 Bond Street heist and the theft of an invaluable artefact. When little Ruby Hanson disappears and a non-descript artist is found murdered, Frost must consider the possibility that these events link back to the “Bond Street Burrowers”. A triptych of hideous paintings could possibly lead to the answer.
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