Detective Inspector Adam Tyler works in South Yorkshire’s Cold Case Unit and is called to the scene when a skeleton is discovered wall-up in the basement of a mansion that is being renovated. The property had belonged to the financier, Gerald Cartwright, who disappeared six years previously. It was thought that he’d had shady dealings and vanished intentionally, but this throws that theory into question. The mansion has suffered from neglect and fire damage from a blaze some years back and the person renovating it is Gerald’s son, Oscar. One snag, seemingly coincidently, Tyler had met Oscar for the first time at a bar the night previously, and they had gone back to his apartment for anonyomos sex. Tyler’s gayness isn’t his only problem with some of the other officers either. The cast of characters will soon include a young Muslim female constable trying to make her mark and facing her own type of discrimination, a hunky local fire chief, and Tyler’s supervisor, who is out to get him. Gerald’s sins are slowly revealed to include far more than illegal business deals. The “Cask of Amontillado” meets fear of being burned alive. Quite well done for a debut mystery. 355 pp.
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