The Old Success (The Richard Jury Mysteries Book 25)

In the twenty-fifth Richard Jury mystery, an unlikely trio of detectives investigates three connected murders across English counties. When a French woman's body washes ashore at a remote Cornish inlet, divisional commander Brian Macalvie of the Devon-Cornwall police takes the case. The only nearby footprints belong to two young girls who discovered the body. Meanwhile, twenty miles away at Land's End, Inspector Richard Jury meets with Tom Brownell, a retired CID detective known for solving nearly every case he undertook—except one, which he reveals to Jury. Following the tourist's death, two additional murders occur: a man is shot on a Northhamptonshire estate, and a person is murdered at Exeter Cathedral in Devon. When Macalvie and Jury consult Brownell about the three seemingly different crimes, he identifies a connection between them. The three detectives work together to unravel the puzzle, uncertain whether this investigation will become Brownell's second unsolved case.