Best Served Cold
A British police procedural set in the 1970's
by Sally Spencer
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Pub Date 1 Aug 2015 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2015
Description
On the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years on they would return to the same theatre and stage the same play.
But two decades later, old resentments have grown and new jealousies have germinated, and it is a very different company that returns to re-enact the Spanish Tragedy. The cast members all have their axes to grind – and some have clear targets for those axes . . .
It is in this world – where normal rules and standards have no meaning – that DCI Monika Paniatowski finds herself, once a tragedy within the Tragedy has occurred. But how can she uncover the killer’s motive when everyone seemed to want the victim dead? And how can she decide who is telling the truth – when all these people lie for a living?
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780727885074 |
| PRICE | US$28.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Suzan L, Reviewer
In 1957, the Whitebridge Players act their last performance due to the closure of the theatre. One of the actors suggests that in exactly 20 years time they meet up and put the same play on again.
Moving on to 1977, their individual life stories are very different and there is tension amongst the group for various reasons, both past and present. When one of them is murdered , DCI Monika Paniatowski is assigned to the case.
The plot is clever as it soon becomes apparent that the murderer must be one of the actors and as the reader you are trying to work out who and why. There are a couple of references made to Agatha Christie’s works in the novel and this plot does bear some resemblance. The depiction of the 1970’s is really good with women taking senior roles in the Police Force; no mobile phones and smoking anywhere etc.
I also liked the unusual writing style of an act taking place or a character’s recall and then straight away the reader is in the present again. This gives the novel real pace. This was an enjoyable mystery and one that would work well on television.
