An Instrument of Slaughter by Edward Marston
An Instrument of Slaughter

Edward Marston

An Instrument of Slaughter

Home Front Detective #2

Edward Marston

350 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
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January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' and 'shirkers', subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of ...

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mysterious 100%
adventurous 50%
challenging 50%
dark 50%
funny 50%

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fast 50%

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