Whodunnit
Contact: whodunnit@horshamu3a.org.uk
As well as reviewing the current group Whodunnit novel we share views of current crime fiction as seen on the television, and suggest any books or authors whose work we have read that other group members might enjoy.
As we usually meet in group member’s homes our numbers are quite limited. If you are interested in joining us please contact me at whodunnit@horshamu3a.org.uk or via the Groups' Co-ordinator using the Contacts page.
Below are the books we have read during the last year.
Susan Page
Group Leader
Whodunnit Books 2023
| Month | Title, Author & Summary | |
| February | The Birdwatcher by William Shaw | |
| Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships, and prefers it that way. When his only friend is found brutally beaten, South’s detachment is tested – it seems there is a connection between the suspect and himself. He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend …he too is a murderer | ||
| March | Still Life by Louise Penny | |
| The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. He cannot understand why anyone would want to kill well loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines-a place so free of crime it doesn’t have a police force. | ||
| April | Murder Before Evensong by Rev. Richard Coles | |
| Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother Audrey. When he announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. Then Anthony Bowness, cousin to Bernard De Floures, patron of Champton, is found dead at the back of the church. Police move in and the bodies start piling up. Daniel is the only one who can try and catch a killer. | ||
| May | Perfect Kill by Helen Fields | |
| Alone, trapped in darkness with no way out, Bart Campbell knows his chance of being found alive are slim, he soon realises that he is locked inside a shipping container far from his Edinburgh home. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the people being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. They face an impossible task – but there is no option of failure or many will soon be dead … | ||
| June | The Curator by M W Craven | |
| It’s Christmas, and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange message is left at each scene; *BSC6. Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are faced with a case that makes no sense. Then a disgraced FBI agent gets in touch, she thinks they are dealing with a man who calls himself The Curator. | ||
| July | Holding by Graham Norton | |
| The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been this overweight, Brid Riordan hasn’t always been an alcoholic, Evelyn Ross hasn’t always thought her life was a waste. So when human remains are found, suspected to be Tommy Burke, a former lover of both ladies, the village’s dark past begins to unravel. PJ struggles to solve the first genuine case of his career. | ||
| August | A Killing in November by Simon Mason | |
| Ryan Wilkins grew upon a trailer park, a member of the criminal Classes to most people. As a young DI he has lost none of his disgust with privileged elites – or his objectionable manners. But he notices things. He does not get on with his affluent professional partner DI Ray Wilkins, but when a woman is found strangled at Barnabas Hall they are forced to. | ||
| September | Entry Island by Peter May | |
| When DS Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. But the open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, he is convinced he knows her. | ||
| October | The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter | |
| Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves a mall. Police search for her, but she has vanished. A month later Sara Linton and her boyfriend Will Trent, a GBI investigator, are about to have lunch when they hear a wail of sirens. They go to investigate – it is their job. But the situation spirals, Sara is taken prisoner, and Will is badly beaten, and is forced undercover, he must rescue Sara and find out what evil the radical group holding her are planning. | ||
| November | Slaughter Man by T Parsons | |
| On New Year’s Day a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their gated community in North London, their youngest son stolen. The weapon was a stun gun used on cattle before they are butchered, a method used by a mass killer from 30 years ago, who was nicknamed the Slaughterman. But he has finished his sentence, he is old, and dying. Can he really be killing again? | ||
| December | The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood | |
| Judith Potts is 77 and blissfully happy living on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow. One evening, while swimming in the Thames she witnesses a brutal shooting. The local police don’t believe her story, so she decides to investigate with her friends Suzie and Becks. |