The victims are just names rather than lives cut short and families changed.Īn interesting character is a strange loner who mends clocks for a living and appears just as weird as psychopath who aludes the police leaving no clues after posting the corpses in post boxes. I didn't care for any characters and since the story never describes the murders but only the bodies at the time of discovery there is little time to feel empathy or a sense of loss. I liked the sense of police frustration but I felt no real threat or public alarm. This still isn't enough to redeem the story for me. We read on waiting for a motive and a clue to the perpetrator sadly these come in the final tenth of the book in a thrilling conclusion.
His characters however fail to lift from the pages and the locations are blurred and ill defined.Ī random seriel killer is the perhaps most difficult to catch without luck or a mistake by the murder themselves. We read on waiting for a motive and a clue to the perp While I commend Endeavour Press for their efforts to bring forgotten and new authors to a wider e book readership I have finally read one which didn't really please me.Įdmund Glasby writes well and it is no hardship to read his prose. A random seriel killer is the perhaps most difficult to catch without luck or a mistake by the murder themselves. His characters however fail to lift from the pages and the locations are blurred and ill defined. Edmund Glasby writes well and it is no hardship to read his prose. While I commend Endeavour Press for their efforts to bring forgotten and new authors to a wider e book readership I have finally read one which didn't really please me. Holbrooke and the police are utterly baffled by the terrifying activities of the Postbox Killer and ramp up their investigations to find the brutal murderer on the loose.more
Soon the whole village is discussing the ‘Postbox Killer’, a madman who deposited the mutilated remains of his victims in postboxes throughout the region.īut Montrose discovers that his own background closely resembles the usual profile of a serial killer, and to Chief Inspector James Holbrooke, he seems an increasingly suspicious figure …
When a series of gruesome murders occur in the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Long Gallop, Montrose can’t stop himself from investigating.
Soon the whole village is discussing the ‘Postbox Killer’, a madman who deposited the mutilated remains of his victims in postboxes throughout the region Richard Montrose is an eccentric loner and clockmaker, fascinated by violent crime. Richard Montrose is an eccentric loner and clockmaker, fascinated by violent crime.