D for Daisy (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 1)
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The murder victim’s wife was blind
World War II. During the attacks on Berlin in the winter of 1943-44, wave after wave of British bombers swept over northern Europe and dropped their lethal loads on the German capital. A fair percentage of the bombers would fail to return from these ‘ops’, and RAF planners calculated the life expectancy of the airmen in weeks rather than months. Therefore it did not seem strange when a Lancaster named D-Daisy landed at its base in England after a bombing run, and a member of the crew was found dead.
However, one person soon came to the conclusion that this man had been murdered. And the person who discovered this happened to be blind since birth. Her name was Daisy and she was the victim’s wife. She was very blonde and very pretty; also very young. That’s why no one would listen to her. So she had to find the killer on her own
“Using the carefully plotted twists and turns of the murder mystery, throwing in a highly unconventional blind sleuth with her very own take on the world, Nick Aaron lifts the genre to a more thoughtful level.” — The Weekly Banner
This 62k novel is a stand-alone Blind Sleuth Mystery
The concept of this series is simple: the sleuth is a blind woman, and she solves a mystery in each novel. All these stand-alone mysteries taken together form an overview of the half-century between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and narrate the life story of Daisy Hayes.
It is not necessary to read the books in any particular order, but most readers just love sticking to the correct chronology:
1943: D for Daisy
1946: First Spring in Paris
1952: Honeymoon in Rio
1956: Cockett’s Last Cock-up
1960: Murder on the High Sea
1964: The Desiderata Stone
1967: Blind Angel of Wrath
1972: Berlin Fall
1984: The Nightlife of the Blind
1986: Daisy’s Pushkin Duel
1989: Daisy and Bernard
1992: The Desiderata Gold
AD 67: The Desiderata Riddle
AD 76: Desiderata’s Lost Cause
1990s: Back to Africa
1990s: The Icarus Case
AD 79: August in Pompeii
1990s: The Murder Convention
1990s: The Empty Grave Chronicles
An unusual sleuth Daisy Hayes was born in London in 1922. Her father was a bank manager, hoping for a son, but he had to settle for a blind daughter.
Now what do you do when your child is blind since birth and you have the means to do all that is necessary to help her? You hire a private tutor to stimulate her verbal abilities in the first years of her life, because you realize how vital language will become for her. Then you send her to an exclusive school where everything is done to develop the minds and resourcefulness of blind girls. There they teach them all these fancy techniques of spatial orientation and mind mapping. And before you know it, your darling daughter has become a smart female detective who just seems to draw murder mysteries like a magnet…
In combination with this unusual sleuth, Nick Aaron enlists the techniques of the page turner to create an enjoyable reading experience: well-written prose, clever plots, and surprising characters. Unputdownable.
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From the Publisher
Bringing the war to the Reich
A Dutch girl who could hear the bombers at night: my mother
My mother was fourteen when the Germans came. She lived in Leeuwarden, a place where British bombers from the north of England entered the Reich on their way to Bremen and Berlin. At night she could hear the ominous drone of the bomber streams and the crack of the German flak. It was terrifying, she told me. The boys at school were delighted: “At least those guys are fighting back!” Never mind that the Dutch were also on the receiving end, sometimes.
One night a bomber was badly hit by flak right above the town. The crew managed to ditch their bombs in the middle of a thoroughfare, deserted at night, just around the corner from the Alma-Tadema Street where my grandparents lived. Then they crashed the plane outside the town, where its fuel tanks exploded. If they hadn’t sacrificed their own lives for the sake of the civilians, my mother might have died long before she could even think of producing me…
When you visit the local War Cemeteries today, you soon find out that a lot of British ‘bomber boys’ are buried there, and that they died young. These ‘men’ were between 19 and 25 years old, “Just a bunch of kids, playing at Armageddon with the deadliest weapons of the age.” But as my mother testified, they were real heroes too.
Product details
- ASIN : B077CM7WJ8
- Publisher : Another Imprint Publishers
- Publication date : November 11, 2017
- Print length : 211 pages
- Book 1 of 20 : The Blind Sleuth Mysteries
