Fifth Son: An Inspector Green Mystery (Inspector Green Mysteries) by Barbara Fradkin

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Barbara Fradkin hits her stride, September 24, 2005*****


This is the second Inspector Green mystery I have read. I read the first, Do or Die, just recently. After reading this fourth in the series I'll definitely have to go back and read the other two. I eagerly await the fifth.
The plot and character development in this novel are exceptional. What appears at first to be an accidental death or at most a suicide as a man falls or is pushed from an abandoned church balcony in the small Ottawa Valley town of ashford Landing turns out to be murder. But who has been murdered and who the murderer is are not immediately apparent. Tenacious Inspector Green pursues scanty leads to uncover a secret that a family has kept hidden for twenty years but at great cost to siblings and parents. Great reading!