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A gruesome discovery: Death Under a Little Sky, by Stig Abell, reviewed

A police detective inherits a country estate and looks forward to early retirement, but is forced back into action when human bones surface at a village treasure hunt

27 May 2023

9:00 AM

27 May 2023

9:00 AM

Death Under a Little Sky Stig Abell

Harper Collins, pp.352, 14.99

The journalist Stig Abell has such a versatile CV – moving from the Sun to editorship of the TLS and then to his present morning slot on Times Radio – that it’s no surprise he has dipped a toe into the crime-writing waters where so many semi-celebrities increasingly swim. What may be surprising, given the rigours of the genre, is how well he’s done it.

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