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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100593685970

ISBN-139780593685976

eBay Product ID (ePID)19064052284

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn Crowd : a Novel

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime

GenreFiction

AuthorCharlotte Vassell

Book SeriesDetective Inspector Caius Beauchamp Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-010767

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Detective Caius Beauchamp returns in Vassell's inventive second mystery chronicling the bad behavior of England's upper crust. . . . Caius's quirky investigative partners, Matt Chung and Amy Noakes, also return, and the interplay among the three is even richer than in the previous entry. Vassell has wicked fun shifting narrators and timelines, and her satire remains sharp." -- Publishers Weekly

Series Volume Number2

SynopsisWINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * An electrifying, whip-smart whodunit about the dastardly misbehavior of London's high society--where being "in" or "out" can be a life-and-death matter In the garden of a large Georgian villa in Southwest London, socialites and politicos swap gossip and sip Pimm's while making snide remarks at each other. Not far from this frivolity, though, a body has been discovered in the River Thames. At first, it appears to be an unfortunate accident, but the death is connected to this gathering of who's who in a way that may spell scandal. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp, attempting to enjoy an evening at the theatre, is shocked to discover another dead body, just a few seats away. The death is linked to the decades-old disappearance of a fourteen-year-old girl at a boarding school in Cornwall. Now Caius has two cases on his plate, but if he wants the resources to solve the tragic mystery of the girl's disappearance, he will have to take new orders from a shadowy government minister who contends that the accidental drowning in the Thames was anything but. As Caius, along with his associates Matt Cheung and Amy Noakes, investigates these parallel cases, he plunges into the exclusive world of money, title, and power as only England can dish it up, where justice is available only to the privileged., WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL - An electrifying, whip-smart whodunit about the dastardly misbehavior of London's high society--where being "in" or "out" can be a life-and-death matter In the garden of a large Georgian villa in Southwest London, socialites and politicos swap gossip and sip Pimm's while making snide remarks at each other. Not far from this frivolity, though, a body has been discovered in the River Thames. At first, it appears to be an unfortunate accident, but the death is connected to this gathering of who's who in a way that may spell scandal. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp, attempting to enjoy an evening at the theatre, is shocked to discover another dead body, just a few seats away. The death is linked to the decades-old disappearance of a fourteen-year-old girl at a boarding school in Cornwall. Now Caius has two cases on his plate, but if he wants the resources to solve the tragic mystery of the girl's disappearance, he will have to take new orders from a shadowy government minister who contends that the accidental drowning in the Thames was anything but. As Caius, along with his associates Matt Cheung and Amy Noakes, investigates these parallel cases, he plunges into the exclusive world of money, title, and power as only England can dish it up, where justice is available only to the privileged.

LC Classification NumberPR6122.A77I5 2024