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Private View by Meg Elizabeth Atkins
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Chatfield, 1986
After a private art viewing on a bleak February evening, the local gallery owner – the flamboyantly camp Minim Minikin – is found murdered.
A painting on display has also been stolen.
The case has DCI Sheldon Hunter stumped.
After months of enquiry, the investigation has turned up nothing.
No suspects, no murder weapon, no painting and, indeed, no artist.
The identity of the painter, Fayne, whose work disappeared that fateful night was as much a mystery to the police as to the art world at large.
Reluctantly, with no leads to pursue, the case is marked unsolved and forgotten amongst heap of other unresolved cases.
Four years later and Hunter receives a series of anonymous letters and phone calls alleging that a family in the picturesque town of Rush Deeping is somehow involved in the death.
His interest piqued, he decides to investigate further.
Apart from being pillars of the community and monstrously self-regarding, the Saddlers seem somewhat unremarkable.
But as Hunter digs around, he soon discovers that their son, Ian, is missing and his mystery caller claims it has something to do with the artist Fayne.
Can Hunter get to the truth before another body turns up?
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