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The Royal Baths Murder (A Yorkshire Murder Mystery Book 4) by [J. R. Ellis]

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Book 4 of 8: A Yorkshire Murder Mystery

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A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction?

A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his novels, Damian Penrose, who was appearing at the town’s crime writing festival, has been ruthlessly strangled. But with no trace of the murderer and no apparent means of escape, how did the killer simply vanish from the scene of the crime?

There’s only one mind capable of unlocking this mystery: DCI Jim Oldroyd. But as he and his team quickly discover, while Penrose was popular with the reading public, he had made plenty of enemies. Feuds over money, accusations of plagiarism, a string of affairs…His route to the top left a trail of embittered rivals—and suspects. But which of them was willing to commit murder?

When Penrose’s shocking death proves to be just the first of many, it becomes clear to Oldroyd that he is dealing with a calculating criminal hell-bent on revenge. He must find and bring them to justice. Before the truth becomes more chilling than fiction…

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John R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire’s diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (29 Aug. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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I have lived in Yorkshire for most of my life and write murder mysteries set in the varied landscapes and communities of the county. I began writing after I retired from a teaching career, mostly in further education. I am a member of a writers' group in Otley near Leeds and we publish anthologies of our work. I also write poetry and short stories, coming second in both categories at the 2018 Saltaire Writer's Competition. I am interested in biographical writing and am working on my memoirs of growing up in Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s and on researching the extraordinary life of my Irish mother-in-law whose son was sent to Australia as part of the child migrant scheme

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Alex James

A bit formulaic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2019

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I made the mistake of reading all four of Ellis's books in quick succession. The settings in Yorkshire were entertaining to a Yorkshireman living elsewhere. The first book I enjoyed, the second felt like a regurgitation and by the time I got to the fourth, the "murder escape easily with no obvious means" routine was wearing a bit thin. Probably my own fault but won't need to buy book 5 unless Oldroyd's new squeeze turns out to be a man who falls in love with Oldroyd's sister and they suffocate in a large tupperware box but strangely disappear with no means of exit. Need to find something new.

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Really quite dreadful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2020

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The author has clearly been told to 'write what you know' but hasn't understood the point of the adage. Clearly the author has spent a lot of time at the annual crime-writers' festival where this book is set, and knows the geography of this part of Yorkshire extremely well (leading to many tedious and unnecessary descriptions of villages and countryside around Harrogate) but sadly doesn't know the first thing about human behaviour, psychology or motivation. Rather a large failing when writing crime novels. He/she should play to their strong points and write for the Yorkshire tourist board or Ordinance Survey maps, and leave crime fiction to others.

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Kindle Customer David Muckle

Move Over

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019

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Move over DCI Barnaby and Midsomer. This series of four novels this time set in North Yorkshire would make a great mini series on TV. The plots are finely woven and in DCI Oldroyd we have a believable senior Police Officer who not only solves the mysteries but involves his two sergeants to think outside the box as it were. The series also points out little known histories of Oldroyd's beloved Yorkshire. As a retired detective I found the books unputdownable so good are they and I read them one after the other. I hope that there may be more in the series sometime in the future. I will certainly keep looking .

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A Good Mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2019

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Liked this story and catching up with Jim Oldroyd, Andy Carter and Steph Johnson the mystery was good and it was good to try and find out who did it before it was revealed. Liked that Steph got her revenge on the horrible , creepy Derek Fenton and he will no longer hopefully be in these stories as his character had no redeeming qualities. The victim Damian Penrose was not a likeable man and guessed he would be the one murdered likewise with his first ex-wife Susan Lawrence but I was surprised Patricia Hughes was killed. Was surprised who the killer's were. I enjoyed this next book and have all of them so far and look to the next one

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Athanasius

Doubling Down On The Same Mistake

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2020

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Once again, JR Ellis takes what could be a good, entertaining crime novel and makes the same mistake he's made in all of the previous Oldroyd novels - inflicting his politics on the reader. And, as a retired teacher, you can guess what his politics are. We get an interesting basic crime. An obnoxious, but highly successful, crime writer is murdered at a crime writing festival at Harrogate, the scene of Agatha Christie's famous disappearance back in the 1920s. He's been strangled in the world famous Turkish baths by an assailant who's managed to somehow slip in and out without being spotted. So far, so good. Enter Chief Inspector Oldroyd, proud Yorkshire man and specialist in impossible crimes. Set all this in one of the more quirky and beautiful of the English shires and you have the makings of a very pleasant and enjoyable read. Somehow, it never works out like that.

Ellis's politics gouges its way across these novels like a slash wound, and frankly, it gets really irksome reading a guy constantly apologizing for the existence of males in the world. The novel is good while he concentrates on the main story, but as soon as he veers off into a subplot involving a 1970s style detective inspector who, frankly, wouldn't last two days in any British police force today, you feel like you're in one of Ellis's classes getting instructed. All the men in Ellis's novels are either useless or wicked, and while some of the women are of questionable character, mostly they are held up as some kind of superior life form. Even Oldroyd's new love interest gets to lecture him.

This loathing of men seems to be getting worse with each Oldroyd novel. They're saved only by the setting. Ellis IS good at building an interesting world, but it's truly ironic that the teacher just never seems to learn.

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AM Roach

Possibly the least plausible plot ever.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019

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I enjoyed earlier books in this series but various small issues have snowballed and by the end of this spectacularly ludicrous tale, I was sorry the murderer had failed in their attempt to finish off the increasingly smug, self satisfied and deeply dull inspector. I didn’t feel the author was playing fair with the reader and the resolution was again more flash of inspiration rather than evidence and I got sick of the characters speaking in speeches.

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Mrs L J

Childish writing style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2021

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I hadn't read any other books by this author and doubt if I will.
The plot is muddled and at times, ridiculous. The whole book reads like a 1950s children's adventure.
There was no point in some of the long rambling page fillers and there were many mistakes in police procedure.
I felt the author had tried to recreate the bygone era of Agatha Christie in a modern setting. It didn't work. It wasn't believeable in either way.
The ending was weak and almost laughable.

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Mrs H.Brookes

Murder mystery full of suspects

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2019

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We meet DCI Jim Oldroyd again & his DS Andy Carter on the trail of a killer who mysteriously disappeared from a murder scene in unbelievable circumstances. The victim a very unpleasant crime writer with many enemies accumulated over his career. All gathered together at a crime writing festival his murder is just the start of the dangerous search of a clever adversary. Also we have Stephanie Johnson Sergeant working alongside Oldroyd since her career began & Andy's partner,asked to assist DC Fenton in a corruption case, Fenton an unpleasant character with a history of sexual harassment has alternative motives in his choice of Stephanie. Thus giving us another case to sink our teeth into. DCI Oldroyd has a new romantic interest in his life who gets an introduction to his job at first hand, another enjoyable read in the series.

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