The Falconer Files Murder Mysteries, Books 1-3

The Falconer Files Collections, Book 1

By: Andrea Frazer

Narrated by: Stephen Doyle

IN THIS THREE BOOK BOX SET

Book 1. Death of an Old Git

In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of the crime.

Book 2. Choked Off

When Marcus Willoughby is found dead at his desk in his new home, no crocodile tears are shed. His demise is even presented on air, during his pre-recorded radio show Marcus having been 'choked off' for good while in full flow. His arrival in the village had obviously caused a few already guilty hearts to beat faster, and precipitates the hasty confessions of dark deeds thought long since buried.

Book 3. Inkier Than the Sword

In the quiet village of Steynham St Michael there is an anonymous letter writer at work, jabbing and stabbing at the past's Achilles' heels of many of the upright citizens living there.

After one resident is driven to extreme measures to escape exposure, another is driven to murder.

©2013 Anthony Frazer (P)2024 Anthony Frazer

Predictable

I guessed the plot very early in each book. It could be ok, if the characters were interesting, but the suspects are cardboard and the main series characters aren’t much better. The sergeant is becoming a peculiar jester-saint and Falconer keeps the books going by failing to make obvious deductions. Not going to bother reading anything else in this series.