Death in the Spires

Death in the Spires (2024) KJ Charles

Set in Oxford in 1905

It’s been ten years, but the crime that caused Jeremy Kite to quit Oxford without finishing his degree continues to follow him. This time it’s a letter to his employer.

Jeremy Kite is a murderer. He killed Toby Feynsham.
Ask him why.

Jem didn’t kill the man he considered one of his best friends, but that doesn’t stop the gossip and the stories.

You were one of the Seven Wonders? The shock in Mr Leighton’s voice wouldn’t leave him.

Of course he’d been astonished. There was nothing at all wonderful about Jeremy Kite now.

The problem is that it must have been one of their group who murdered him, and Jem doesn’t know who could have done it.

And as with young adults, there was so much happening underneath everything that complicated everything.

Nicky watched Toby, and Jem knew it because he watched Nicky.

The story is both the slow discovery of who murdered Toby and why, and also what the suspicion did to all of them.

He was frightened, and, once he recognised that, he realised he’d been frightened for a very long time, at a level so deep he hadn’t known it. One of the people he most loved had become a murderer, and he’d never trusted anyone again.

I love KJ Charles’s writing; I’m glad I discovered this buried in my TBR pile.

Characters: Jeremy Kite, Nicholas Rook, Toby Feynsham, Hugo Morley-Adams, Mr Aaron Oyede, Miss Ella Feynsham, Prudence Matilda Lenster, Mr John Alan Warren, Moffat, Miss Keele

Cover by Lisa Horton

Publisher: Storm Publishing

Rating: 8.5/10

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