Praise for the Inspector Stratton series “Laura Wilson is an exceptional talent.
As well as a twisty murder mystery, A Willing Victim is a portrait of England in the mid-fifties and a meditation on the dangerous power of faith. Traveling to Suffolk to investigate, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers led by an enigmatic, charismatic leader, and a femme fatale with a shady past. The murder victim is a young man in London whose bookshelves are filled with literature on spirituality and esoteric religions, and who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a New Age cult based in Suffolk. The world is in turmoil-the Bikini Atoll, the Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising-these are just some of the events Inspector Ted Stratton can’t help but think about as he makes his way through a murder investigation. It’s 1956 as the 4th Inspector Stratton mystery opens.
a disquisition on the seductive attractions of unquestioning faith” from the author of The Wrong Man (Independent). “A slow-burning but accomplished murder mystery.
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