DI Ambrose

DI Ambrose The DI Ambrose Mysteries are set in the late 1950s and early '60s, a period of great change that seems like an era ago. Skull Days Newly promoted to Detective Chief Inspector, Ambrose leads a serious crime team, with officers including reader's favourites, DI Winters, WPC Meadows, PC Sutton, and PC Green, a rookie from London, learning country policing. When a girl goes missing from an expensive boarding school and a teacher drowns in mysterious circumstances, a chain of events develops that stretches Ambrose and his team to its limits. Skull Days is the fifth novel in the series, after Foul Play, Poison Pen, Close Disharmony and Poetic Justice.

When a famous close harmony choir visits Chalk Heath, tensions are rife. DI Paul Ambrose feels a sense of foreboding, but is powerless to prevent the murder of one of the singers. Does the choir include a murderer, or is the death connected to the recent thefts in town? And is there a thief at the hotel where the choir is staying? DI Ambrose's colleagues make his job even harder. WPC Pauline Meadows has been singing with the choir and PC Sutton's wife is their accompanist in Chalk Heath. Can DI Ambrose and DS Winters solve the mystery before the choir returns home? About the DI Ambrose mysteries [I am] reminded how pleasant it is to lose oneself for hours at a time in good writing. ...it is as complex, detailed and plausible as any reader could wish - a real exercise for the grey cells and a pleasure to read. Tony Reavill of Moorside Words and Music .