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Ann Cleeves Classic Crime engaging mysteries to savour beloved characters to meet again

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled

As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorotheas last hours He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases a sick and lonely old woman a disturbed adolescent a compulsive gambler a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care and even her close family have their secrets to hide All these people are haunted in one way or another by Dorotheas goodness But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead

It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived and why she died With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge Ramsays murder investigation reaches its chilling climax