Thursday, March 11, 2021

Last Train to London

Title: Last Train to London
Author: Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
Published: April 10th 2014 by Bastei Entertainment
Format: Audio, Kindle, 106 pages
Genre: Mystery Short Story
Series: Cherringham #5

I enjoy the Cherringham series by the writing team of Costello and Richards. Sometimes an afternoon calls for a simple break and a revisit with ex-NYC police officer Jack and native Cherringham resident Sarah.

When adored resident Otto Brendl is found dead before he is to perform a Punch-and-Judy show with his much-loved puppets, the locals are devastated. But it turns out that Otto wasn’t who everyone thought he was and when Jack and Sarah do a little digging it turns out that Otto was a person to be despised and maybe his death, though heinous, was a type of justice.

The Cherringham stories aren’t obvious from the start, there is usually a twist or character turn that has the reader sitting up a bit and realizing that the path they thought they were on took a serious left turn and they are right back in the muck with Jack and Sarah as the story divulges the unexpected.

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