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The Garden Party by Peter Turnbull

nonna7's review against another edition

3.0

When a drunk bus driver drives his bus directly into a homeowner's Victorian brick wall, the homeowner hires a contractor to rebuild it. One of the builders discovers a note in the crumbling wall. It claims that there are bodies buried there that deserve a better burial. There is not so much a mystery here as the story of a painstaking investigation. Every chapter shows the various investigators finding witnesses and asking the same or similar questions as they probe deeper and deeper. At the same time we learn a little about the investigators and pathologist themselves. There's not a lot of action in this book nor is it a long book. The writing is crisp and to the point. While the reader learns something about the ongoing characters in the book, it is done as an afterthought. The story comes first. This is the third in the series. You don't have to read the previous ones to understand the characters. Still, I plan to go back and read them in the upcoming months.