A period drama is being filmed in the Tenby Harbour area in Wales. Soap opera star Noah Voce is starring in the film, as is his actress wife and a younger woman with whom Voce had had an affair years before. Voce is found dead in his trailer, his head bashed in.
Detective Inspector Caren Waits, fresh from success in solving the Paxton Tower murders, finds herself and her team grappling with movie star egos, production pressures to keep filming, and a growing list of suspects. The dead man apparently had plenty of admirers but few friends.
Waits also runs up against a new experience – being stalked as she works and picks up her young son at school. And she gets disconcerting news from her attorney. Her husband, who died in an automobile crash, apparently had a relationship with a woman who is now demanding a share of his estate. Ad she may have a legitimate claim.
Stephen Puleston
The Tenby Harbour Murders is the second in the DI Caren Waits series by Welsh author Stephen Puleston. It’s a solid, entertaining story and helps to anchor was is turning out to be a successful detective series. The third in the series is The Swansea Maria Murders. (Interestingly enough, all three have been published this year, and a fourth is in the works.)
Puleston publishes three series of Welsh police detective stories. Detective Inspector Ian Drake is with the North Wales Police Service, Detective Inspector John Marco is with the South Wales Police Service, and now Detective Inspector Caren Waits is with the West Wales Police Service. The author originally trained and practiced as a; solicitor/lawyer. He also attended the University of London. He lives in Wales, very close to where his fictional heroes live and work.
DI Caren Waits solves crimes in both the old-fashioned and new-fashioned ways – solid, often slogging, police procedure plus the assistance (and sometimes confusion) of DNA and computer technologies. The Tenby Harbour Murders is a well-done mystery, and it will keep you guessing until the end.
Related:
The Paxton Tower Murders by Stephen Puleston.
My review of Written in Blood.
My review of Another Good Killing.
My review of Against the Tide.
My review of A Cold Dark Heart.
My review of A Cold Dark Heart.
My review of Dead and Gone by Stephen Puleston.
My review of Time to Die by Stephen Puleston.
My review of Stone Cold Dead by Stephen Puleston.
My review of Looking Good Dead by Stephen Puleston.
Some Monday Readings
The Berry Family’s Founding Myth – Jeffrey Bilbro at Plough.
A New Environmentalism? – Stephen Hayward at Law and Liberty.
How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job – Alex McCann at The Free Press.
“Yesterday”: Sometimes a Song – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
The celebrity guide to selective outrage – Sarah Idan at The Spectator.
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