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Book Review
Reviewed: 25 July 2024

The Missing Nurse

by: Roger Silverwood

A Yorkshire Murder Mystery - Book 1

  • Rating: full starfull starfull starstar outlinestar outline (3/5)

Want to solve a 20 year old disappearance? All you need is an American Class Ring, a ransomed video tape, a couple of dead cats, and … DCI Angel.

This is my first read of this author and I didn’t know what to expect. DCI Michael Angel is a bit of a curmudgeon but he is also dogged about his work. With this being book 1 there are some backstories that are not yet flushed out as the team works to get to the bottom of the cases that have landed on the DCI’s desk. He is a bit cross about having a new transfer on his team, DS Crisp while his DS is at profiler training.  Angel takes an earnest fresh faced PC under his wing and deals with fending for himself while his wife is away carrying for her ill mother.  

If you’ve read the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, DCI Angel reminds me of an older pre-DCI Oldroyd. A little less enlightened and a little gruffer and grittier but good at solving cases. 

The way the pieces of all of the cases were interwoven was well done. I have a couple questions that didn’t seem to get resolved but it didn’t detract from the case(s) resolution.

I am interested in book2 to see if DCI Angel and his team continues to grow on me. 

Thank you to #NetGalley  for the opportunity to share my thoughts on the story. 

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 15-September-2019
British, Audiobook, NetGalley, Mystery

Plot Summary

Original Title: In the Midst of Life published 1-July-2004

For Inspector Michael Angel, the savage murder in an insane asylum twenty years ago marks the beginning of this gruesome trail of enquiries to find missing nurse Fiona Thomas.

In spite of obstruction from the chief constable, this quirky Yorkshire policeman reduces the suspects to one, by resorting to an unusual and original strategy.

A dead woman wearing one stocking inside out, an American class ring, a missing videotape of the lovely Lola, and two dead cats all play their part in this scramble to find the killer in this unusual and gripping mystery.