A Shot in the Dark: A Twitten Mystery (A Constable Twitten Mystery)

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I have to admit, with the Keystone Cops scenarios, the vaudeville theater show and general language, the period described felt more like the 1920s/1930s than 1957. This country’s most accomplished contemporary historian, Kynaston, born in 1951, is also a lifelong fan of “the Shots” with a memory for games, names and anniversaries that has surely earned him his badges as a fully licensed football anorak. Now 1957, Steine already has enough on his plate what with dulling the enthusiasm of Sergeant Brunswick who longs to go undercover before the arrival of the far too eager twenty-two-year-old Constable Peregrine Twitten. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.

Twitten is the eager new guy on the force; Sargent Brunswick is unimaginative but sincere, shackled by the lead cop, a bureaucratic blowhard that avoids doing police work by pretending that Brighton has no crime.And made you empathize with not only the main characters, but the family and friends that were affect as well.

Excellent on audio and perfect for fans of books like Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly or Bellies by Nicola Divan.Into this mix arrives college educated Constable Twitten - now here we have an extremely intelligent individual, who aims to make his mark investigating the murder of a much hated theatre critic. More to the point of it being a good book, it’s a very emotionally evocative story about two artists who are recovering addicts and who find great solace in each other, their connection is almost inexplicable and so the story unfolds with them often by each other’s side helping one another navigate their recovery, family drama, religious trauma and artistic journeys. In her introduction, Truss mentions that this book, in addition to writing a police comedy serial for the BBC, she was hoping to gain membership in the Detection Club of London.

This pitch-perfect queer NYC romance between a trans man and a pan, ex-Orthodox Jewish woman exceeded all my expectations! I did wish we got a little but more from him but that's the rooting for trans characters in me showing. S. Crystal knows a secret concerning the unsolved 1945 Aldersgate Stick-Up case and goes to the theatre intending to share his secret with the constable when Crystal himself is shot in his seat. Furniture was in disarray; ornaments shattered, curtains torn, blood dripped from the fireplace and was sprayed in arcs across the walls. Fast forward to 1957, Steine is still wallowing in the glory of 1951, taking all the credit for the removal of so many villains in one fell swoop, but he’s a completely incompetent copper, can’t even see what’s right under his nose - his sidekick Brunswick is ambitious and has more idea, but then again he’s not the sharpest tool in the box.The characters are like those you might find in an Agatha Christie novel and in fact the whole book reads that way except it is based in the police station rather than a country house. And not only the discussions and conversations had, but the word and writing choices that were made - they knew exactly what details to give and not give that felt real, authentic, and confirming. And as Wyatt's walls begin to break down, each artist fights for what's right in front of them - a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible. I absolutely adored the emotional connection between the two characters and how thoughtfully Lee explored both of their identities— Wyatt as a transman estranged from his family and Ely as she reacquaints herself with the Chassidic Jewish community she left eight years prior.

When I say "Brighton police", I refer to (1) Inspector Steine, a do-nothing, see-nothing, self-deludedly important head of department, (2) Sergeant Brunswick, a could-be-a-crime-solver who is easily distracted, and (3) Constable Twitten, a young, brand new member of the force who seems to be bounced from police force to police force because no one can stand him and his know-it-all attitude and cleverness.i fully subscribe to the posit that this book crept into my life for a reason and was intricately intertwined with the circumstances surrounding.