Death Holds the Key

<p>When loathed landholder Fred O'Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest rookie Detective Hartley must seek help from a mysterious wanderer to solve the case. And it's one where everyone including O'Donnell's family has a motive and a secret to keep.</p><p></p><p>Featuring the mendicant monk from Thorpe's previous novel <em>Death Leaves the Station</em> readers will be drawn into the world of small-town Western Australia in the late 1920s delighting in the characters as they navigate the strained sensibilities and dark secrets of the past.</p><p></p><p>Full of twists and turns this seemingly impossible murder mystery is cosy crime writing at its finest.</p>