A Killing Term

A Killing Term

<b>The body count is rising…</b><br /><br /><br /><br />Detective-Inspector Jones could discover no motive for the suspicious death of the young man who worked in Chalingford’s Planning Office.<br /><br /><br /><br />Like others, he could speculate about what went on, but despite his best efforts he was no closer to solving the case.<br /><br /><br /><br />Driven by ambition, Robert Howick – headmaster of Trelawne School – inwardly quakes at the fear that certain dark and damning secrets could, if known, entirely destroy his hopes for the future.<br /><br /><br /><br />But with the power to hire and fire his staff the way he sees fit, he believed he was unassailable<br /><br /><br /><br />However, when a body flies off the roof of Civic Hall, Detective-Inspector Jones is drawn into the tangled world of Trelawne School and its complicated inhabitants<br /><br /><br /><br />Jones suspects that there is more going on at the school than first meets the eye and when a second body turns up, his thoughts are all but confirmed.<br /><br /><br /><br />Jones is certain that the mysterious events are linked with the crooked dealings at Chalingford’s Planning Office.<br /><br /><br /><br />He just doesn’t know how to prove it.<br /><br /><br /><br />When Jones gets called out to the third crime scene, this one on the grounds of Trelawne School itself, and things finally begin to fall into place…<br /><br /><br /><br /><em>A Killing Term</em> is a fast-paced murder mystery novel by a master of the genre.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Praise for Robyn Sheffield</h2><br /><br /><br /><br />'A real page-turner.' - <b>Robert Foster</b>, best-selling author of <em>The Lunar Code</em>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Robyn Sheffield</b>, born and educated in Surrey, lives in Devon with her husband, formerly a research scientist and now a professional watercolourist. They have an adult son and daughter. She trained as a diagnostic radiographer and then as a teacher and has worked in London, the Home Counties and the West of England. She also spent six years helping in the management of a family business. Since 1986 she has concentrated on writing plays and fiction. A Killing Term is her first crime novel. <br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now. </b>