Death in Delft, Graham Brack
Death in Delft, Graham Brack
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Death in Delft
A 17th Century Historical Murder Mystery

Author: Graham Brack

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

Three missing girls. Only one body. Where are the others?

1671, Delft

Three young girls have been abducted from their homes. The body of one has been found in a shallow grave. The other two are still missing. The murder has shocked everyone in the peaceful city of Delft and the mayor is desperate to catch the perpetrator before panic can spread any further.

With the bitterly cold January weather intensifying it is doubtful that the other two girls are still alive. But whoever took them is still at large.

The mayor requests the help of Master Mercurius, a gifted cleric from a nearby university, and local artist Vermeer, who uses his skills to sketch the crime scenes.

Can they find the missing girls before it's too late? Will Mercurius be able to track down the killer?

Or will more victims succumb to Death in Delft?

About Graham Brack

Graham Brack hails from Sunderland and met his wife, Gillian, in Aberdeen, where they were both studying pharmacy. After their degrees Gillian returned to Cornwall and Graham followed. This is now called stalking but in 1978 it was termed "romantic." They have two children, Andrew and Hannah, and three grandchildren, Miranda, Sophie, and Olivia. Gillian and Graham now live in Northamptonshire.

Graham's foray into crime writing began in 2010 when he entered the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger competition and was highly commended for Lying and Dying (previously titled The Outrageous Behavior of Left-Handed Dwarves), in which the world was introduced to Lt. Josef Slonský of the Czech police. Slaughter and Forgetting followed. Both have been republished by Sapere Books along with another four in the series, Death On Duty, Field of Death, A Second Death, and Laid in Earth.

In 2014 and 2016 Graham was shortlisted for the Debut Dagger again. The earlier novel, Death in Delft (previously titled The Allegory of Art and Science), is set in seventeenth-century Delft and features the philosophy lecturer and reluctant detective Master Mercurius. Sapere Books published it in 2020.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on May 26, 2021

5★ “‘Last I heard he was in an asylum.’ ‘An asylum?’ ‘You know, a madhouse. Place where they put the insane.’ ‘I know what one is,’I said.‘I just wondered what he did to be imprisoned in one.’ ‘I’m not sure. Some say he threatened to kill his mother, but you don’t get put away for doing people a servi......more

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