Regular readers of my blog know that I love historical fiction, crime fiction, and anything with an intriguing setting. This one hits all three!
It’s 1933 and off-season in Brighton, never busy, but definitely not the best time for opening night of a play in the theatre at the end of the Palace Pier. The writer of the play, Bertie Carroll, has popped in to see how it is going – and, along with an old school friend who is now a police detective, witnesses a murder live on stage. It’s left to Bertie and his friend, Detective Hugh Chapman, to try to uncover what happened when the famous leading lady died in front of a (hardly packed) theatre audience.
Surely the culprit is the cast member who fired the gun at the famed Celia Hamilton on stage?
Continue reading Book Review: ‘Death on the Pier’ by Jamie West