When the body of troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is pulled from the river in Abbeyford, the case is at first assumed to be a straightforward suicide. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is shocked to discover that she’d met the victim the night before her death, introduced by Kate’s younger brother Jay. As the case develops, it becomes clear that Elodie was murdered.
A talented young musician, Elodie had been keeping some strange company and was hiding her own dark secrets. As the list of suspects begin to grow, so do the questions. What is the significance of the painting Elodie modelled for? Who is the man who was seen with her on the night of her death? Is there any connection with another student’s death at the exclusive musical college that Elodie attended?
As Kate and her partner, Detective Sergeant Mark Olbeck, attempt to unravel the mystery, the dark undercurrents of the case threaten those whom Kate holds most dear….
Requiem, a Kate Redman mystery, is the new novel from crime writer Celina Grace, author of Hushabye , Lost Girls, and The House on Fever Street.
Don’t bother – it’s a book not a movie! How the author thought it was a good idea to have most of the complex deduction and reasoning to sole this case happen OFF page was beyond me. Kate the main character actually said when solving this case – ‘Look, there it is’. WHAT?!?!? I’m not in the room – I can’t see what she’s looking at. This key piece of info solved the mystery. I have no idea how we got there but it ended and I was relieved. Not continuing with this series.
and this one does not disappoint. I read a previous review where the writer … Book 2 in this series finds English Detective Sergeant Kate Redman and her partner, DS Mark Olbeck, involved in solving a murder to which she has a personal connection. Her brother introduced her to the girl the night before she was found dead on a riverbank. Her brother is sort of high-strung and Kate worries he might somehow be involved in the girl’s death.Â
Dumb detectives, shabby work, annoying mystery I really wanted to give this book a better rating but just couldn’t do it.Â