In this intriguing historical mystery, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career . . . London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of a fashion model employed by the House of Blackley, a prestigious Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard’s Special Crimes Department is thrown into the bizarre: the chief murder suspect is a monkey. He may be sceptical, but how will Quinn ever get to the truth when faced with the maelstrom of seething jealousy, resentment, forbidden desires and thwarted passion that is the Mannequin House?

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In London 1914, a young mannequin (model) for the House of Blackley, a posh London department store, is found strangled in her room at the store’s Mannequin House. DI Silas Quinn is handed the case, but only after dire warnings that he must toe the line and not kill any suspects, as he did on his last case. To keep Quinn under control, his superiors assign DCI Coddington to supervise Quinn. Not only does Quinn have a tricky case to solve, but now he has someone interfering at every turn. As the case unfolds, Quinn finds plenty of potential suspects who could have killed the mannequin, but when a second mannequin is killed, Quinn knows the clock is ticking. The story unfolds slowly, with unexpected detours and twists, but it’s the mysterious Quinn, with his troubled past and complex personality, who keeps the book from falling into the “just another historical murder mystery” category. Entertaining and engaging. --Emily Melton

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