The Bodies at Westgrave Hall

Name: The Bodies at Westgrave Hall
Rating: 4.318181991577148 (22 reviews)

Nick Louth

Feb 2021 · DCI Craig Gillard Crime Thrillers Book 7 · Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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A large country mansion. A locked room. A gruesome murder.

Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov has invited 1000 guests to a party at his palatial Surrey residence, Westgrave Hall. But while giving a private tour of the library, a gunman kills Volkov, wounding his ex-wife and slaying her new beau.

Nothing makes sense to DCI Craig Gillard. In the blood-spattered crime scene there are no forensic traces of anyone else involved, CCTV shows no one entered or left the library, and everyone seems to have an alibi.

Is it a crime of revenge, the squaring of a love triangle, or a Russian government operation? Could the victims have simply shot each other? Gillard's eventual discovery is shocking even to him.

The latest gripping crime thriller from a master of the genre, The Bodies at Westgrave Hall will leave you guessing until the very end. Perfect for fans of Ed James and Damien Boyd.

A large country mansion. A locked room. A gruesome murder. Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov has invited 1000 guests to a party at his palatial Surrey residence, Westgrave Hall. But while giving a private tour of the library, a gunman kills Volkov, wounding his ex-wife and slaying her new beau. N...

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22 reviews

Lynn D

February 11, 2025

Boring and slow throughout but with a fast and furious ending that wrapped things up so neat and tidy it felt soap opera'ish. Disappointed in this one as I've read the series in order and loved/liked them all until this one.

Janice Tangen

February 28, 2021

law-enforcement, procedural, thriller, international-crime-and-mystery***** This is one very busy story! I haven't read any others in this series, but I never got lost in that particular rabbit warren. The assortment of foreign nationals and the massive renovation of a historic mansion to accommodate a ginormous fossil was a different problem entirely. The characters were very well defined, the action and investigations which were complicated enough before the meddling from MI5, and the interdepartmental issues really added to this variant of the classic Locked Room Mystery. Kept me up too late reading it! I requested and received a free temporary ebook from Canelo via NetGalley. Thank you

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About the author

Nick Louth is a million-copy bestselling thriller author, and an award-winning journalist. After graduating from the London School of Economics, Nick was a foreign correspondent for Reuters, working in New York, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong. He has written for the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle, Money Observer and MSN. His debut thriller, Bite, was a Kindle No. 1 bestseller and has been translated into six languages. The DCI Craig Gillard series and DI Jan Talantire series are published by Canelo, and in audio by WF Howes. He is married and lives in Lincolnshire.

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