The Salton Killings A British police procedural set in the 1970's

Read Dec.2013 - Quite Good! 4/5 �- short, fast read. When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to investigate. An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned way, and he is convinced that Margie Poole, Diane's best friend, knows more about Diane's last movements than she is prepared to tell. Then Woodend's inquiry turns up the death of another young girl a generation before. The similarities in the two cases begin to look more sinister than mere coincidence. Could there be a serial killer on the loose...? Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend finds himself in a backwater village investigating a murder in this taut police procedural. 1950s Cheshire, England. When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is pulled in from London to investigate. An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned way, and he is convinced that Margie Poole, Diane’s best friend, knows more about Diane’s last movements than she is prepared to tell. Then Woodend’s inquiry turns up the death of another young girl a generation before. The similarities in the two cases begin to look more sinister than mere coincidence. Could there be a serial killer on the loose. . . ? “Spencer conjures a great sense of menace in the troubled village, and her epilogue is a real stunner, promising more from a very talented writer.” —Booklist “Spencer’s US debut provides sturdy mystery-mongering, reliably quaint suspects, and an unusually detailed list of clues.” —Kirkus Reviews When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to investigate. An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned way, and he is convinced that Margie Poole, Diane's best friend, knows more about Diane's last movements than she is prepared to tell. Then Woodend's inquiry turns up the death of another young girl a generation before. The similarities in the two cases begin to look more sinister than mere coincidence. Could there be a serial killer on the loose . . .? Chief Inspector Woodend #1 The strangled body of teenager Diane Thornburn is found buried in the salt store in a Cheshire village. Diane's best friend, Margie Poole, knows more than she is prepared to tell. Chief inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to investigate - his inquiry turns up the death of another young girl a generation before, and the similarities in the two cases begin to look like more than just a coincidence. Is there a serial killer on the loose and, if so, where and when will he strike next? When the body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in a salt store in Chester, Chief Inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to investigate. The inquiry turns up the death of another girl a generation ago, and the similarities in the two cases begin to look more sinister than coincidence. Though it was late May, the thick mist had clung tenaciously until well after eleven, and even after its departure left a chill in the air to remind the villagers of its all-enveloping shroud. Chief Inspector Woodend is called from London to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a village in Cheshire