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Walking By Night by Kate Ellis
Joe Plantagenet series Book #5
4.5 ★
Taking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the center of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a mysterious nun-like figure watching her from the shadows. But during the subsequent search, no body is found. The girl’s inebriated state and her troubled history make the police skeptical of her story, and only Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe her. Then a woman is reported missing, and Joe finds himself caught up in a complex investigation involving a production of The Devils at the local Playhouse. Could the play, with its shocking religious and sexual violence, have something to do with the woman’s disappearance? And is there really a connection with the tragic death of a young nun at the site many centuries before? Nothing is as it first appears.While reading this book, I thought how much it compares to you watching the third, fourth or fifth movie of a great series... you know the characters well enough to understand their motivations and behavior, but the story is never predictable. this story is anything but predictable. Usually I can sort out the killer but not this time. It's been 3 years since this book was published and not a peep have we heard about a sixth book. Here's keeping my fingers crossed. This is way too good of a series to end it with only five books.
