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The Killings on Jubilee Terrace (Charlie Peace, Bk 10)
The Killings on Jubilee Terrace - Charlie Peace, Bk 10 Author:Robert Barnard The set of a hit television show makes a natural “closed environment” in which to stage a murder mystery. In his latest whodunit, popular British writer Barnard uses such a setting to great effect, both for the murder itself and for its investigation. Barnard brings back veteran Leeds copper Charlie Peace, recently promoted to i... more »nspector (A Fall from Grace, 2007), and gives him the daunting task of sorting out the mayhem on the set of the soap opera Jubilee Terrace.
"You are confusing real life with unreal life," one actor on the show says to another, and so it is, for cast members and readers alike, as Peace must deal with the deliciously tangled ways in which the actors’ personal lives intersect with their personalities and roles on the show. When an actor returns to the show after his character is reinstated, the atmosphere “deteriorates significantly.” What results is a solid, entertaining British procedural from a genre veteran.« less