Review: Great suspense!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
James Wearing flew to Melbourne from Sydney after the dinner at the University concluded. He had a paper to present two days later, and decided to go earlier after another uncomfortable argument with his brother Alex. They had been at odds their whole lives, and James always found Alex's behaviour strange, but just could not get on with him. He was starting to feel he should move from Sydney and working with his brother, as since his wife Louise had died in a car accident two years earlier, the memories were always there...perhaps he needed to make a complete break, and start afresh.When he received a telephone call from Miles, the museum's co-ordinator, about the artifacts which had been lent to the University the day before, to say they were missing, James was shocked. The three pieces, including a celtic dagger, were all priceless; James was sure they would turn up somewhere. But the next phone call was the worst - Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn from Sydney called to advise him of his brother's murder sometime during the night after the dinner.On James' arrival back in Sydney, he was shocked to discover Fitzjohn regarded him as a suspect in Alex's murder. So deciding to try a little investigating himself to clear his name, he found himself getting deeper and deeper into a web of secrets that he had trouble understanding. His brother's life was obviously not as it had seemed; suddenly the dangers that were pressing in on him were real.With the involvement of blackmail, affairs, greed, jealousy and theft among other things, the twists and turns were swift and gripping. DCI Fitzjohn and his sidekick Detective Betts were kept busy but was James still on their suspect list? And would the killer strike again?I really enjoyed this, my second Fitzjohn mystery by Aussie author Jill Paterson. I actually read book 2 first, and loved it. This one didn't disappoint, and I'll be looking out for more in the Fitzjohn series, hopefully not too far away!