A Song for the Brokenhearted by William Shaw, 403 pagesLondon detective Cathal Breen is recovering from an on-the-job gunshot wound and is slowly going insane at his friend Helen Tozer's remote family farm. No wonder then that he starts investigating the bizarre unsolved murder of Helen's sister, who was found mutilated on the family farm four years earlier. The investigation soon picks up when another body turns up, and soon Breen is going undercover at drug parties and delving into British colonialism in Africa, all in the hopes of catching the killer.
This is the third book in Shaw's Breen and Tozer series, though I've not read the first two. Doesn't really matter though. By-the-books Breen and women's libber Tozer are are interesting match, and I love the feel of the late 1960s that comes alive in this book. Still not sure why the book has the title it does, but hey, it's a good book.
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