Twelve To Murder

, #7

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Lauren Carr: Twelve To Murder (EBook, Acorn Book Services)

eBook, 266 pages

English language

Published by Acorn Book Services.

5 stars (1 review)

Mac Faraday’s plan to spend a quiet weekend home alone with his lady love, Archie Monday, is shattered by murder.

A middle-aged couple are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek Lake. To any other detective, the case would be considered open and shut when it appears as if one of the victims has written her killer’s name in her blood—not so for Mac Faraday, who believes there is more to this case than meets the eye.

In Lauren Carr’s latest Mac Faraday Mystery former child-star and teen-idol Lenny Frost steps into a pub in Deep Creek Lake to see his face on the television over the bar with the announcement that he’s wanted for the murder of his agent and her husband!

How does Lenny Frost react to this sudden comeback into the headlines? He takes everyone hostage and gives Mac Faraday twelve hours to find the …

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reviewed Twelve To Murder by Lauren Carr (Mac Faraday, #7)

One of my favourite Mac Faradays

5 stars

This seventh novel in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' series is one of my favourites. Perhaps not quite surpassing her newest installment, Shadow Of Murder, but still a very satisfying and entertaining read. I love how each Mac Faraday mystery manages to feel different from its predecessors so the books don't become at all repetitive and that's exactly the case here with our hero, Gnarly the German Shepherd dog, and Mac Faraday finding themselves drawn in to a tense hostage situation - one of the most original hostage scenes I think I've ever read! You'll have to read it yourself to find out why that is.

Keeping up with all the twists and turns in Twelve To Murder was quite a feat and, at one point I wasn't sure that anyone's statements were wholly believable - except perhaps Bernie and Hap of course whose life requirements are pretty straightforward, beer and …

Subjects

  • Crime Fiction
  • Mystery