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The action switches from London to East Anglia which, as in other novels set there like those of Dorothy L Sayers and PD James, provides a sinister backdrop to an enthralling tale.
#A WILLING VICTIM SERIES#
Although a book that stands alone as an interesting and complex mystery, much insight will be gleaned by the reader who invests in the earlier books.Ī Willing Victim is the fourth (of five)of the DI Ted Stratton series of novels and is at least the equal of its predecessors. I know that with the Internet research is easy, but this book was so brilliantly written that I was back there. In a way it was scary I had to look up from reading to reassure myself I wasn’t back in the 1950’s.
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I personally lived through the 1950’s, I was a teenager and this book took me back. The strength of this book lies in the amazing recreation of the period. In everyone’s family there are the bores, the ones at every family gathering we try to avoid, and in this book we face the passage of time which can throw a different light on someone we would have thought that we knew well. The most touching part in the book was with his extended family. In his personal life Stratton is at odds with himself, both with his relationships with his two children and himself. The discovery of a woman’s body in the wood close to the Foundation confirms his suspicions. But Stratton is like a dog with a bone and he is determined to uncover the secrets of this mysterious cult, which he is sure is related to the death of Jeremy Lloyd. But Michael’s mother has disappeared.įor Stratton a down-to-earth policeman, the creator of the foundation, Mr Roth is an enigma.
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He does meet Michael, a twelve year-old boy said to have been immaculately conceived, and to be the next incarnation stretching back to Christ and Buddha. Interviewing the members of the cult he is met with smiles but a wall of silence. The discovery of the body of Jeremy Lloyd in his Soho lodgings takes Stratton to a cult in Suffolk masquerading as the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding set up in a house reputed to be haunted. Inspector Stratton has come through the war, as have his son and daughter, but his wife Jenny was unlawfully killed many years ago, and despite the passing of years Stratton has yet to come to terms with it. The discovery of the body of Jeremy Lloyd in his Soho lodgings takes Stratton to a cult in Suffolk masquerading as the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding set up in a house reputed to be h ‘A Willing Victim’ by Laura Wilson ‘A Willing Victim’ by Laura Wilson Published by Quercus, May 2012.