Sometimes the way detectives receive a tip about a case they might be interested in can be quite unusual. But probably not so unusual as when a convicted career criminal in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison asks for Charlie to investigate an apparently solved murder.
Because he doesn't believe that the now dead fellow prisoner (who apparently took his own life in his cell) who had confessed to the murder of a young female student in the 1970s was really guilty.
After taking a quick look into the case Charlie Moon soon realises that perhaps all might not be well with the case.
An initial clue was that all of the records of the case seemed to have been removed from the files.
The more he digs into the case the more he is convinced that there was a monstrous miscarriage of justice. So aided by his journalist friend Jo Lyon (who helps put Charlie in touch with a former Birmingham crime reporter) and his somewhat reluctant team of detectives, Charlie attempts to get to the bottom of why a young Jamaican hospital porter called Wilson Beames had been fitted up for the murder, who had fitted him up and who the real killer was, if he really hadn't done it.
But are people who are still in the force trying to throw Charlie off the scent?
This is another first rate crime novel from Jenny Francis about one of my favourite fictional detectives, DCI Charlie Moon.
It's published by Matador at £8.99.
Incidentally this book was so engrossing that whilst I was reading it in the bath, the water went cold!
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