Bottled Spider
The year is 1940. And the German bombs aren’t the only thing that could get you... Two-faced Golly Goldfinch likes his victims young, female and unsuspecting. Armed with piano wire and the ability to go unnoticed despite a facial deformity, Golly hears voices telling him who to target. After the mutilated body of a popular BBC announcer, Jo Benton, is discovered in her London home, inexperienced Detective Sergeant Susannah Mountford finds herself hopelessly out of her depth in charge of the investigation. It quickly becomes clear that Jo Benton has intimate connections across London society and it is WDS Mountford’s job to untangle the sordid web of her personal life. But, as the number of similar corpses mounts, the question must be asked — are these killings the frenzied work of a madman, or is something altogether more organised going on? With bombs dropping every night and death all around, WDS Mountford must fight the general prejudice against women in the police force to be taken seriously. Then Golly hears her name... Bottled
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John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He joined the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War and in 1943 the Royal Marines. He left the army four years later as his father wanted him to read theology. He earned his BA at St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1950 and completed his degree at Oxford. Gardner was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1953.
Suzie Mountford
Suzie Mountford consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
