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The Graveyard Position - Robert Barnard

 
Description: ISBN 0749082402 / Author: Robert Barnard / Genre: Crime / Thriller / After a twenty-year absence, Merlyn Cantelo returns to Leeds to ... more
The Graveyard Position - Robert Barnard ... attend his late aunt Clarissa?s funeral. Far from being welcomed back into the fold of his large and quarrelsome family, he is viewed by many with suspicion and distrust ? especially since his timely reappearance has thwarted the prospect of a tidy inheritance. However, all is more complex than it seems. The teenage Merlyn only fled his home at the vehement insistence of his sometimes clairvoyant aunt, who foresaw for him a life blighted by violence and death. Moreover, the root of this danger supposedly lies somewhere within the family? Merlyn knows that if he is to discover whether his aunt?s fears were justified, he must come to terms with his tragic past ? and delve into the murky history of the Cantelo family.

Newest Review: ... one of the reasons why he’s better known in this part of the world than others! His writing style is easy on the brain and ... more

 ... puts me in mind of the early Wexford novels by Ruth Rendell. Most of the Barnard novels feature, if not star, Charlie Peace, a black detective Sergeant in the local police force. In this novel he plays an incidental part with most of the investigation being carried out by Merlyn Cantelo who has returned to Leeds as an educated professional man. Although there is some progression between the novels there are no spoilers: the worst you will find if you read the books out of sequence is that you know there is a promot...more

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Premium Review The Graveyard Position - Robert Barnard: Not at all deadly! (700 words)
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The teenage Merlyn Cantelo left Leeds twenty years ago at the insistence of his Aunt Clarissa, a clairvoyant, who had foreseen violent danger to him from within the Cantelo family. She’d told everyone that he’d disappeared in Asia. In actual fact he was being educated in Italy. He’s not welcomed back into the family with open arms though, as his reappearance means that some who were expecting a decent inheritance will be disappointed. Merlyn has to delve into the murky history of the Cantelo family to find out who is threatening him. Robert Barnard is one of those authors who have been surprisingly prolific but are not well known despite writing some ...  Read the complete review

 

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