The Brewery Murders

The Yorkshire Murder Mysteries - Book 9

The Brewery Murders

By J. R. Ellis
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An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders?

Steeped in a history of award-winning Yorkshire ale, the town of Markham boasts not one but two breweries. Richard Foster runs one; his sister, Emily, along with her partner, Janice, runs the other. And not without some resentment.

The unwelcome return of the town’s former bad boy, Brendan Scholes, threatens to ignite the sibling rivalry further. Scholes claims to have found the long-lost secret recipe to the beer that made Richard and Emily’s father famous, and he wants money.

But it isn’t long before Scholes’ body is found floating in a fermentation tank at one of the breweries, his head caved in by a hammer. DCI Oldroyd and Andy Carter are called in to investigate the murder, and there’s no shortage of suspects.

As rumours of the possible existence of a recipe for the famous beer spread against a backdrop of growing homophobia and misogyny, tempers run high. With Markham’s beer industry at stake, a killer on the loose and the town’s residents out for blood, Oldroyd needs to solve the murder before someone else is killed…

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  1. Sarah
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    A satisfying police procedural set amidst the Yorkshire boutique ale industry

    The Brewery Murders is another solid instalment in J.R. Ellis's popular series featuring Harrogate-based D.C.I. Jim Oldroyd. In this outing, D.C.I Oldroyd and D.S. Andy Carter are called to the (fictional) Yorkshire town of Markham, after a man is found battered to death, floating in an fermentation tank during an ale festival. Against a backdrop of sibling and commercial rivalry, a campaign of homophobia and a missing secret recipe, Oldroyd and Carter must sift the clues to identify the killer. The Brewery Murders features the twisty police procedural plot, well-developed characters and methodical investigation that J.R. Ellis's loyal audience have come to expect. I particularly enjoyed the settings and detail that prove Ellis's wide knowledge and research into the Yorkshire boutique ale industry. This is a high-quality series that is well worth the reading. My thanks to the author, J.R. Ellis, publisher Amazon Publishing UK | Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley (UK) for the opportunity to read and review this title.

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