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![Murder in Park Lane (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 5) by [Karen Charlton]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Hw8iiAsjL._SY346_.jpg)
Murder in Park Lane (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 5) Kindle Edition
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London, 1812. At a fashionable address in leafy Mayfair, a far cry from Detective Stephen Lavender’s usual haunts, a man is found dead in his room. He has been brutally stabbed, but the door is locked from the inside and the weapon is missing.
The deceased is David MacAdam, an Essex businessman with expensive tastes. As Lavender and Constable Ned Woods travel between London and Chelmsford seeking to understand MacAdam’s final hours and unearth the grisly truth, they uncover a tangled web of deceit behind his stylish facade. The unusual circumstances of MacAdam’s death are nothing compared to the shady nature of his life and it seems the house on Park Lane is at the heart of a dark conspiracy.
But when a second body turns up, everything they think they’ve learned is thrown into doubt. Can Lavender and Woods find out who’s behind these shocking murders before more lives are ruined?
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas & Mercer
- Publication dateFebruary 12, 2019
- File size3510 KB
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“Instantly engaging and hugely entertaining…The pages just fly by.” —Crime Fiction Lover
About the Author
Karen Charlton writes historical mysteries and is also the author of a non-fiction genealogy book, Seeking Our Eagle. She has published short stories and numerous articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines. An English graduate and former teacher, Karen has led writing workshops and has spoken at a number of literary events across the north of England, where she lives. Karen now writes full-time.
A stalwart of the village pub quiz and a member of a winning team on the BBC quiz show Eggheads, Karen also enjoys the theatre and won a Yorkshire Tourist Board award for her Murder Mystery Weekends.
Find out more about Karen’s work at www.karencharlton.com.
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- ASIN : B07HQR8Y8L
- Publisher : Thomas & Mercer (February 12, 2019)
- Publication date : February 12, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 3510 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 317 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1503955621
- Lending : Not Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #18,581 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #88 in Historical Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #166 in Historical British Fiction
- #173 in Historical Regency Fiction
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About the author

Karen Charlton is the international best-selling author of The Detective Lavender Mysteries which are set in Regency London and feature Bow Street’s Principal Officer, Stephen Lavender and his humorous side-kick, Constable Ned Woods.
Her brand new series, The York Ladies' Detective Agency Mysteries features two enterprising young women, Jemma and Bobbie, who launch a private inquiry agency in York during WW2.
In addition to this, she has written a stand-alone historical novel, 'Catching the Eagle', based on the true story of her notorious criminal ancestor and a non-fiction genealogical book, Seeking Our Eagle that explains how she and her late husband tracked down the jail-bird in their family tree.
A former English teacher, with two grown-up children and a small grandson, Karen lives in a Yorkshire fishing village with two cats and writes full-time.
A stalwart of the village pub quiz team, Karen joined them when they competed in the BBC’s famous Quiz Show, ‘Eggheads’ – a TV programme she’d never watched before. Much to her surprise, they won.
Karen loves historical fiction and TV costume drama and has always enjoyed a good mystery.
She also loves to hear from readers and you can easily contact her via her website: www.karencharlton.com
For the latest news about her novels, public appearances and some special offers sign up for her Occasional Newsletter.
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While this book is part of a series, the story is self contained and can be read without the other books, but you should consider reading the series because this is a wonderful series with great characters and dialogue.
Stephen Lavender is a Principal Officer at Bow Street and he works with Constable Ned Woods in his investigations. Sir Richard Allison is a renowned physician who works with Bow Street on occasion. He is arrogant and expects to be treated like royalty whenever he deigns to work with Bow Street. So, imagine Lavender’s shock when Sir Richard requests his assistance on a case. It is right down Lavender’s alley. The victim, David MacAdam, was found in a room that was locked from the inside, the window was warped and couldn’t be opened and there were no other possible points of entry. It couldn’t be suicide because there was no murder weapon to be found.
Suspects abound and the victim isn’t what he appears to be. None of the witnesses are telling the truth – some are outright lying and others are omitting vital pieces of information. Lavender definitely has his work cut out for him with this one.
When a second victim turns up, it complicates the case even further. Of course, there are personal worries and complications as well – Lavender is awaiting the birth of his first child and Ned is concerned about his weight and takes extreme measures to fix it.
The suspects will blow your mind – you have everything from aristocrats to con artists to loan sharks. What they get up to will keep you flipping the pages as fast as you can to see what happens next.
Definitely a good read!
This one was a complete surprise!
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Now to pass this to my wife badgering me for her chance to read.


The story centres round a dead body found in a locked bedroom with the key on the inside! Although in the posh side of London Lavender proves that a murder has taken place and sets out to find the perpetrator.
Intriguing insights to the different classes of life in that time and men's pursuit to marry into wealth was interesting. As was the older rich ladies pursuit of young men!
The bit about Lavenders side kick Ned Woods deciding to fast to lose weight was tedious and in reality he would have been sent home without pay for fainting. But setting this aside it was still a cracking read and definitely recommended.

Once again you can find at the end of the book the historical details concerning this tale, and these are superbly implemented within this great mystery.
The author's story-telling is of a top-notch quality, the mystery is very well structured and executed, all characters come vividly to life within this mystery, and not to forget the atmosphere and surroundings of Regency London come brilliantly off the pages.
This mystery is mainly set in September, AD 1812, in Regency London, and our protagonists, Detective Stephen Lavender, and his friend, Constable Ned Woods, will come into action again in an attempt to solve a murder mystery which has occurred in Park Lane, London.
The murder victim is a certain, David MacAdam, a cunning man with expensive tastes, who will do anything and will deceive anybody in his effort to really get what he wants.
Somehow his duplicity has worked against him, and now at Mrs Palmer's lodgings he's found dead, supposedly stabbed to death, by Lavender and Woods, with the certain consequence that many more eventful elements will unfold themselves during their investigations.
What is to come is a thrilling and entertaining murder case, in which Lavender and Woods need to follow the evidence and leads they will gather, and in their own remarkable way intertwined with an exciting and suspenseful plot, and it certainly had me guessing, they will discover in the end the surprising culprit of this heinous murder.
Highly recommended, for this is a superb mystery and part of a fascinating series, which gets better all the time, and to come back what this episode is concerned I like to call it: "A Fabulous Executed Murder Mystery"!