The 11 05 Murder Summary

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'The 11:05 murder' by Brian O’ Hare takes you to a whole new world of a mystery novel. It is the second book of the series and it justifies its place as a murder mystery. Even if one has not read the first book, the second book still offers a good read. The story begins on a striking note, providing an insight to the reader on what to expect. The mystery starts from the beginning of the novel. You want to know what happens, why it happened. The questions arise from the first chapter and are of utmost thrill. The story places Sergeant Denise Stewart, a rookie in the Serious Crimes Department, as the female protagonist while Inspector Sheehan remains as one of the main highlights. Considering the book is a series of Inspector Sheehan stories, …show more content…

Being a newbie, she has no idea what to expect and the gruesome details of the crime she comes to experience face-to-face is intriguing. The case is about a brutal, personalised murder with three different motives - A case of adultery and revenge? Swindled business owners out to get vengeance? Or a tragedy of the past and the present coming together, and someone delivering their own form of justice? At first, the Inspector and his teams try to connect the most obvious dots to arrive at a closure; but as the days go on and more details are highlighted, the case takes a whole different turn. Instead of arriving closer to the conclusion, the case gets more jumbled up and new questions arise. When the second murder occurs, a sequence is observed. The killer had chosen precisely 11:05 Tuesday evenings to commit the crime which justifies the title of the novel. But why that very hour and day is the question? The questions don’t stop there. There is a tragedy from the past that finds its relevance again, an informant who knows more than he informs and a stalker who might just be the killer. Sergeant Denise is the centre of

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