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Death Makes No Distinction: A Dan Foster Mystery - The Dan Foster Mysteries 3
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Two women at opposite ends of the social scale, both brutally murdered.
Principal Officer Dan Foster of the Bow Street Runners is surprised when his old rival John Townsend requests his help to investigate the murder of Louise Parmeter, a beautiful writer who once shared the bed of the Prince of Wales. Her jewellery is missing, savagely torn from her body. Her memoirs, which threaten to expose the indiscretions of the great and the good, are also missing.
Frustrated by the chief magistrate’s demand that he drop the investigation into the death of the unknown beggar woman, found savagely raped and beaten and left to die in the outhouse of a Holborn tavern, Dan is determined to get to the bottom of both murders. But as his enquiries take him into both the richest and the foulest places in London, and Townsend’s real reason for requesting his help gradually becomes clear, Dan is forced to face a shocking new reality when the people he loves are targeted by a shadowy and merciless adversary.
The investigation has suddenly got personal.
Reviews
Death Makes No Distinction is a superb historical murder mystery with a down to earth and realistic protagonist. I think it could definitely be read as a standalone and I have no doubt that any readers picking up Dan Foster's story at this stage will be eager to read the previous books too.
Lucienne Boyce’s late 18th-century Dan Foster mysteries move from strength to strength….Lucienne Boyce skilfully and tangibly evokes Georgian London with her evocative and, at times, visceral, description. I particularly loved the “wet-beast smell of the mud banks” as Dan trails a suspect down to the Thames. Although some of the backstory is explained, it would benefit the reader to be familiar with the two previous books, partly to pinpoint a timeline and also because events and relationships from Dan’s previous cases come to bear on the plot here, and now take form in a sinister threat to Dan’s own family.
This is now the third full length novel in the Dan Foster Mystery series and there is much to enjoy in returning to this exciting world of Georgian crime. This time around Foster finds himself, as always, at the very centre of the action however, when the investigation threatens his own personal circumstances it is a race against time to solve the case before his own family get hurt in the process. Beautifully written and intricately plotted Death Makes No Distinction continues this exciting historical series with another compelling murder mystery. I can't wait to see where the series takes us to next.
