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Not My Blood by Barbara Cleverly. A Joe Sandilands Mystery.
Review summary: This solidly plotted mystery contrasts the character strengths of Joe Sandilands and others involved in the investigation with the barbaric conduct of teachers, politicians, and even some parents. The academic setting in the rural countryside provides an atmospheric backdrop to the story, a singularly strong one indeed in this terrific series. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Not My Blood
Barbara Cleverly
A Joe Sandilands Mystery
Soho Constable (August 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he learns the boarding school case is more complicated than it appears: A frightening number of boys, all from wealthy families, have gone missing over the school’s history, and by some coincidence none of the families have followed up on their sons' whereabouts.
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