MURDER AT MIDNIGHT
by C.S. Challinor
Midnight Ink, August 2014
"What could be better for Agatha Christie whodunit fans than an old-fashioned Scottish country house murder on New Year''s Eve?"
Barrister and sometimes sleuth Rex Graves, and his bride-to-be Helen d'Arcy are hosting a holiday party for their friends at his lodge in the Scottish Highlands. Due to severe winter weather conditions, only 13 guests are able to make it. Before the party ends, the lights flicker and die, and so do two of the guests...murdered by an unusual poison.
Before the bumbling Chief Inspector Dalgerry of the Scottish police is able to make it through the snow, and before the lights come back on, Rex conducts his own investigation to discover how the murders were committed and who had the best opportunity and motive. His questioning of each guest in the candle-lit semi-darkness ends up providing the vital clues to the eventual discovery of the murderer; even though, after the electricity is restored, the police and Rex are still in the dark as to the identity of the culprit. It is not until tragedy strikes again that Rex is finally able to figure out the who and the how and the why, and pass that information on to Inspector Dalgerry.
This is the seventh book in the Rex Graves series that began with CHRISTMAS IS MURDER (2008) and it's well worth the time of discerning devotees of traditional British mysteries. ~Joseph Scarpato, Jr. for MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
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