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Reviewed: 01 February 2025

Murder on Oxford Lane

by: Tony Bassett

Detectives Roy and Roscoe - Book 1

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What is it about the residents of Oxford Lane?

This is my first time reading this author and I didn’t know what to expect. We are introduced to new Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy and her Detective Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe. Unfortunately, for DS Roy who wants to prove herself to her boss, her personal life is interfering. 

The cases were mind boggling with the team seemingly at a loss for clues and suspect alibis checking out.

There was a lot packed into the story both in the professional and personal lives of the characters. I liked how DCI Roscoe’s family was integrated into the story and into his cases beyond the missing of something important due to work scenario that is bound to happen for a police officer and his family. With his DI caught up in another case, he is actively working with DS Roy and we see how is opinion changes of her changes as the investigation progresses and she finds her stride. It is after all her first major case since her promotion.

I liked that the DS Roy was not blond haired and blue eyed but of a different cultural background. 

 

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 9-January-2022
British, Read-and-Listen, Mystery

Plot Summary

The peace of a Midlands village is upset when local businessman Harry Bowers doesn’t return from choir practice.

More concerned than the man’s own wife, it would seem, investigating officer Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy becomes convinced he has been done away with.

But there is no trace of the man, just a litany of evidence of an ailing marriage and a nose-diving business venture.
In charge of her first serious case, DS Roy will struggle to win the respect of her colleagues – in particular her Brummie boss, DCI Gavin Roscoe. All that whilst fighting off the intentions of an increasingly desperate suitor.

Who had it in for the budding chorister? And is Roy tough enough to break down the defences and prejudices of Middle England?