{"product_id":"the-bell-tower-murder-anthony-frazer-9798232461034","title":"The Bell Tower Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristmas Eve in the Blackmore Vale. Church bells should be ringing across the frosted countryside, calling the faithful to midnight mass. But at St. Mary's Brambledene, the bells are silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Detective Chief Inspector Rhys Morgan and his young partner DC Ben Carter discover blackmailer Oliver Heathcote suspended in the bell ropes, the case seems straightforward enough. A tragic accident, perhaps. A suicide, at worst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil they try to leave the locked ringing chamber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe door is bolted from the inside. The windows are too high and too small. The tower is ancient stone, solid and unforgiving. Yet somehow, impossibly, the killer has vanished-leaving behind a body that defies explanation and a church full of secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Rhys and Ben dig deeper into the victim's life, they uncover a web of blackmail touching everyone from decorated war veterans to respected farmers. Each suspect had motive. Each had opportunity. And each swears they're innocent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the bells didn't ring that night. Someone muffled them. Someone who knew the church intimately. Someone the community has trusted for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a close-knit valley where everyone knows everyone's business, some secrets are still worth killing for. And the tower captain's greatest secret is locked away in stone and silence-until Rhys Morgan discovers that even the most impossible crimes have a solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clever locked-room mystery in the tradition of classic British crime fiction, The Bell Tower Murder introduces DCI Rhys Morgan and DC Ben Carter in the first of The Blackmore Vale Mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Frazer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798232461034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jdi Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.85d","brand":"Anthony Frazer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623576875263,"sku":"9798232461034","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bell-tower-murder-anthony-frazer-9798232461034","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}