BOOK REVIEW AND TOUR - Murder At The Mill by T.A. Belshaw

Murder At The Mill by T.A. Belshaw July 7-13 Introducing Twenty-one-year-old Amy Rowlings, a vivacious, quick-witted collector of imported American music, a movie buff, and an avid reader of crime fiction. January 1939 and the residents of the snow-covered streets of a small Kentish town awake to horrific news. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery on the way to work at The Mill, one snowy, January morning, she is blissfully unaware of how much her life is about to change. She is drawn into the murky world of murder when the body of Edward Handsley is found lying on the floor of the clothing factory. Edward, a libertine, philanderer, the son of George, the factory owner, a young man with many enemies, many of them female. Bodkin is new to the area and accepts Amy’s offer to provide local knowledge, but she soon becomes an invaluable source of information. When Adam Smethwick is arrested for the murder, Amy, a family friend, is c...