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Name: The garden party
Author: Peter Turnbull

When a cryptic note is found tucked behind a wall cavity in a London hotel, Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team trace it to a shallow burial site holding charred bones of two men. Their investigation quickly plunges them into a grim and violent underworld, the only clue left being the ruined remains. To solve the case Vicary must dig into the sinister history of a notorious gangland garden party, uncovering how the two men met their fatal fate and revealing who orchestrated the crime.

First publish date: 2012

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural

Authors: Peter Turnbull

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