She's Leaving Home (Hardcover) by William Shaw

from dulcinea14

An enjoyable murder mystery set in 1968's London, near the Beatles recording studio on Abbey Road. I felt that Shaw really captured the colorful and turbulent time: issues of feminism and racism, the sadness underlying hard-core "Beatlemania," the cultural struggles of immigrants. The relationshi...

from SamSattler

I learned from reading William Shaw's Alexandria Cupidi series that his fictional detectives are usually, to one degree or another, pretty flawed human beings. Shaw is, in fact, quite the master at creating policemen who vividly come to life on the page precisely because those flaws make the cops...

from johnwbeha

This book has an overall grade of 3.69 which, I think, is spot on. The first in a new police procedural series, albeit that you couldn't tell that from the ending of this book. Quite interesting and entertaining lead characters show promise for the future as does the writer. Set back in 1968 we a...

from maneekuhi

"She's Leaving Home" by William Shaw is the first Breen and Tozer novel, two London Metropolitan cops in 1968 London. At the moment there are three additional novels in the series; readers should note that some of the books have different US titles than those originally published in the UK; fanta...

from maneekuhi

"She's Leaving Home" by William Shaw is the first Breen and Tozer novel, two London Metropolitan cops in 1968 London. At the moment there are three additional novels in the series; readers should note that some of the books have different US titles than those originally published in the UK; fanta...