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Field of Death: An atmospheric international mystery (Josef Slonský Investigations Book 4) Kindle Edition
Graham Brack (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Slonský is back … and on a diet…
Josef Slonský is preparing to take up his promotion as Captain when a spanner is thrown in the works.
He has to pass a medical, and a lifetime’s supply of beer and sausage is not helping his chances of passing.
Faced with a strict diet and exercise regime, Slonský is even less amenable than usual.
But, his attention is caught when reports come in of a Second World War bomb detonating in a nearby field.
It seems four metal detectorists were killed in the blast upon discovering it.
But the pathologist Slonský works with suspects foul play…
Could this be a murder investigation? Was the bomb planted?
Slonský must solve the mystery surrounding this Field of Death…
FIELD OF DEATH is the fourth international crime thriller in the detective series featuring Lieutenant Josef Slonský: an atmospheric police procedural full of dark humour.
JOSEF SLONSKÝ INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
BOOK ONE: Lying and Dying
BOOK TWO: Slaughter and Forgetting
BOOK THREE: Death on Duty
BOOK FOUR: Field of Death
BOOK FIVE: A Second Death
BOOK SIX: Laid in Earth
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date23 March 2019
- File size1390 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B07NJ7YQJ8
- Publisher : Sapere Books (23 March 2019)
- Language : English
- File size : 1390 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 251 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 93,323 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 109 in British & Irish Drama
- 1,057 in British Detectives
- 1,092 in International Mystery & Crime (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Graham Brack has been writing for as long as he can remember, but now concentrates on crime fiction. Three times shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger prize (in 2011, 2014 and 2016) he never quite managed to win it.
Graham lives with his wife Gillian in Northamptonshire and has two children and three granddaughters, who are too young to be allowed to read Grandad's books, so he provides other stories for them.
He trained and practised as a pharmacist and has also written about football, rugby and medical law.
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It’s reported that four men with metal detectors managed to discover and then to detonate a World War II bomb. But Novák the pathologist has some doubts about this explanation, and Slonský starts investigating. Was it an accident, or is it murder?
‘Has either of you heard of the Ghost Battery?’
This is the fourth brilliant entry into the Josef Slonský series, and I think it is the best yet. It has a delightfully eccentric plot (no spoilers here) and includes his two offsiders Jan Navrátil and Kristýna Peiperová. Peiperová is about to undertake a one-year assignment for the Director of Criminal Police, and Slonský is plotting to make sure that she returns to his division afterwards. And Navrátil ends up with his own critical assignment as Slonský works to solve the case. There’s plenty of action towards the end, and more than a few twists.
As I’ve come to expect, Slonský finds some unusual albeit pragmatic solutions to problems and it’s an entertaining read. While this novel could be read as a standalone, I’d recommend reading the novels in order because the character development (and related backstory) is as important as the case being solved.
And now I will wait patiently for another instalment. Highly recommended.
Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Sapere Books for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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The thrust of the story is that an old artillery gun has gone missing and the fear is that it could be used to wreak havoc during the upcoming visit of the American president. One of Slonsky’s colleagues is sent under cover to infiltrate a far right group that may have plans for this visit and for the next Czech elections.
As with previous novels in the series, much of the enjoyment is found in Slonsky’s banter and his relationships with his colleagues and friends. Slonsky is well aware that he is not PC and is even sent on an awareness course to try to drag him into this ever perplexing moral maze that we all have to navigate. The denouement is well delivered and with Slonsky’s promotion to captain, he is well placed for further adventures.

I also felt there was good character development . It is so easy to have your main character being a slob in all the books ( maybe where Joyce Porter stayed with Inspector Dover ) ,but here we have so many new sides opening up that I look to the future books in the series with real anticipation . I very strongly recommend all the books in this series ..and at a very fair price.


