Death Speaks in My Name

The author’s novels, written under the name Jo Alex, stand out favorably from the fast-boring works where the main characters are flashy American guys who first shoot and only later start thinking. Here you’ll find a classic English detective story that incorporates all the best that attracts you to this genre: plot dynamics, an intellectual showdown, crime and its solution.

A murder in the theater. It seems like a commonplace plot, played out dozens of times in books and films. An investigation among actors, where everyone is ready to tear each other’s throats, and for the lead role they may try to do away with the entire troupe. But everything becomes far more mysterious and tangled if the story is told by a true master of the detective genre. Jo Alex, along with his longtime friend (they fought together, in the same bomber crew) Ben Parker—now a police inspector—will take up the trail and literally untangle this knot, millimeter by millimeter, of a well-devised plan and accidental circumstances, and at the end find the murderer. Only… the victim…