Blood Among The Threads

By David Ebsworth,

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He only sought the truth. But some truths are best left buried.

Wrexham, 1876. Meet Alfred Neobard Palmer, an unlikely hero. "It was a death which had brought him here. Death by snake venom, of all things." Palmer - and his more courageous sweetheart, young Ettie Francis. A series of…

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I must confess to a special interest in this mystery. It is set in Wales, and I am Welsh by birth. From a series of accidental deaths to an old collage created by a local master military tailor, this recent publication (2023) mesmerized me from start to finish. I could not put it down.

What fascinated me was how the settings, whether the town center with its breweries, tanneries, and museum, the site of the Art Treasures Exhibition, or the menacing waters of the Irish Sea, the location of the story’s nail-biting climax, brought this well-researched, page-turner to life before…

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