Death Speaks Softly (A DCI Webb Mystery)

There were plenty of men, both tutors and post-graduates, who'd been attracted to Arlette Picard.

But when the young French girl disappears from Broadshire University, it sparks one of Chief Inspector Webb's most complex investigations.

She was a vivacious young woman, carefree and loved by many — or was she?

Was her disappearance been caused by jealousy?

It is not just her disappearance that makes Webb uneasy. .

On the fringe of his enquires is Professor Warwick, a man whose brilliance teetered on the brink of madness.

And the arrival of the girl's parents from France soon leads to a further tragedy, which Webb is helpless to prevent...

‘Death Speaks Softly’ is a gripping crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

“A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist

“Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times

'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post

'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘Pretty Maids all in a Row’, ‘Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven’, The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

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