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Cleaver Square: Sometimes the dead won’t stay buried. (A DCI Morton Crime Novel Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Sean Campbell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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He should be dead. He’s not.

When the body of young Charlie Matthews is found buried in Hackney Marshes, the task of informing his mother falls to DCI David Morton.

But when he gets to Cleaver Square to give her the bad news, he finds Charlie Matthews alive and well.

So, who is the boy in the ice?

More importantly, who put him there?

And who will they kill next?

Cleaver Square is the second stand-alone crime novel in the DCI Morton series. Jump in with this one or search "Dead on Demand" to start with the first book in the award-winning series.

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"Cleaver Square is a step by step walk through a crime so well written that you believe you are part of the team...It was impossible to put this book down and I neglected my chores until I read the final page. I look forward to following the future cases of David Morton. Sean and Daniel Campbell have certainly earned a spot on my favorite authors list."Reviewed by Trudi LoPreto for Readers' Favorite

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Sean spends his days working out how to kill people without being caught, and then flipping the switch to play detective. His non-writing interests vary from photography and cinema to rugby and hiking. You can usually find him somewhere in one of London's coffee shops - look for the big bearded guy taking up way too much room and hogging the Wi-Fi.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ De Minimis; 2nd edition (March 9, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 9, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1471 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages

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Sean Campbell is the author of DCI Morton series (Dead on Demand, Cleaver Square, Ten Guilty Men, The Patient Killer, Missing Persons, The Evolution of a Serial Killer, and My Hands Are Tied) as well as the standalone thriller, The Grifter.
He spends his days working out how to kill people without being caught, and then flipping the switch to play detective. His non-writing interests vary from photography and cinema to rugby and hiking. You can usually find him somewhere in one of London’s coffee shops – look for the big bearded guy taking up way too much room and hogging the Wi-Fi.
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Daniel Campbell was born in Portsmouth, England in 1988, and has lived in Oxford since 2017.
Together with his brother, Sean, he is the author of the DCI Morton series of crime novels (Dead on Demand, Cleaver Square, Ten Guilty Men, The Patient Killer, Missing Persons, and The Evolution of a Serial Killer).
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Tony Parsons

whodunnit murder mystery

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019

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Hackney Marshes (Kingfisher Wood, Lea River). DI Bertram Ayala (Metropolitan PD) met DCI David Morton (52, Metropolitan PD) at the crime scene.
The frozen body was partially uncovered.
Robert Lyons (North London Diggers Ass.) had found the male corpse.

Hank Williams (Social worker) had taken Charlie Anthony Matthews (12) to his next foster family.
Kennington, England. #36B Cleaver Square. Mrs. Ingrid Lattimer & Mr. Roger Lattimer greeted him.
The rules of the household were quickly set in stone to Charlie.
Dr. Larry Chiswick (ME) was examining the corpse of aka Joe Bloggs (teen).
Bournemouth, England. West Overcliff Dr. DI Ayala & DI Tina Vaughn were sent to the Lyons household.
I'm DCI David Morton (Metropolitan PD) went to interview Mr. Houton (day trader) & Mrs. Houton (house wife) about their missing son Rick Houton.
Stuart Purcell (Forensics) came up negative on the DNA test of the Houton’s.
Dr. Wagner (psychologist), diagnosed Charlie with dyslexia, & he will now receive Special Educational needs.
More scientific tests were done. The other Charles Matthews (corpse #0113/103) is deceased.
Elliot Morgan-Bryant (solicitor) was at the station while they were interrogating Craig Linden (husband).
Shelly Linden (wife) was next.
DI Vaughn arrived at the crime scene.
Both the Linden’s had been murdered.
Why did Hank go see Dimitri “Tiny” Bakowski (brother)?
Charlie’s former foster parents: Adrian Lovejoy (husband, psychotherapist), & Prudence Lovejoy wife) were being interrogated with Ms. Federica Boseli (Huntingdon Fox & Ass. solicitor) present.
Detective Alfie McNamara was assigned to help out with the cases.
Will the murder mysteries be solved & someone be brought to justice?

Warning: This book contains adult content, violence, or expletive language &/or uncensored sexually explicit material (child verbal/mental/physical/sexual abuse, human sex slavery, prostitution, & trafficking) which is only suitable for mature readers. It may be offensive or have potential adverse psychological effects on the reader.

I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one.

A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. A very well written who dunnit crime thriller book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a huge set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great murder mystery movie, or better yet a mini TV series. There is no doubt in my mind this is a very easy rating of 5 stars.

Thank you for the free author; De Minimis; 2 edition; EBookStage; Amazon Digital Services LLC.; book
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Jhari

keeps you interested

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2022

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Good lead characters and writing, lots of twists and turns to keep you reading
And trying to figure what is next. I’ll get more of this series. The DCI is interesting to be with,

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Jim

A plot well constructed and unraveled.... but maybe not.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2018

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Very well written. A baffling mystery, solved systematically with just a little luck. Police and "authorities" were portrayed realistically with warts and all, and the inadequacy of laws also surfaced.

My eyebrows rose only when a wife kicked out her husband because someone had robbed him. Women can be irrational and capricious, but that goes too far.

Hold the phone! I fear that after all, the plot may have a flaw. *Why did the killer discard the valuable watch?* The possible answer that if he hadn't the plot would not have worked, will not do; for a fictitious character cannot tell an author what to write.

Hold the phone again! - on second reading, I fear the overall plot has a very big flaw. SPOILER ALERT; to explain, I need to reveal the plot. If you don't want to see that, please read no further.

A wealthy criminal kingpin has several (half a dozen?) crooked enterprises at work, and earns a total that appears (from the price of his apartment) to exceed ten million pounds a year. Therefore, we may assume each of them yields one million, at least. The main one of them that fuels the book is to traffic in children; he accepts a fee from parents in poor countries to insert their child into the British foster-care system so as to give him or her a better start in life.

The scheme is to use a corrupt social worker to kidnap a child being moved from one foster home to another and kill him, then to assign his identity to the incoming child from (eg) Ukraine and deliver him to the second foster home. Neat; but it does mean disposing of bodies. One of them comes to police attention and large resources are devoted to the mystery of who he is. It's clearly a rare occurrence.

Now put these together: if the racket imports one child a month (more than that rarity suggests) the fee must be close to 100,000 pounds each. If a parent in a poor country can afford that much, he is very wealthy in that country and could much more easily give his offspring a flying start in life without abandoning him to the UK foster-care system - all thoughts of parental love, aside. So the core of the plot here simply doesn't ring true.

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Luccia Gray

A Plot-driven Detective Novel

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015

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Cleaver Square is a well-plotted detective novel. I enjoyed travelling around London with Detective Morton, I also liked the detailed police procedural and scientific information, including autopsy reports and legal issues. At times it was like watching an entertaining crime film, with all the intricacies of a complex investigation.
The plot was cleverly designed and well developed until the final surprising twist is revealed. It’s narrated in third person, although the narrator is sometimes omniscient and sometimes, takes the point of view of one of the characters, such as Morton or Charlie Mathews, a young boy in a foster family, who is an essential component of the plot which will gradually develop throughout the novel (I don’t want to add any spoilers). The prose was mostly easy and pleasant to read.
It’s definitely a plot-driven novel, because the emphasis is clearly on an external conflict, in this case a murder, and its solution through a specific sequence of events, in this case tracking down the criminal. There is a great deal of action involved, and both the dialogue and the action are mainly concerned with unveiling the plot and solving the issue at hand. In this aspect there is no objection, the plot was correctly and smoothly conveyed.
However, I would have liked to feel more involved with the characters in the novel. I felt like they were saying their lines and playing their part, but I couldn’t relate to them on a personal level.
Overall I’d say that if you enjoy a well-plotted detective novel, set in London, with an unexpected final twist, you’ll enjoy Cleaver Square.

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david

Good Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2023

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It appeared that two cases were being investigated but they both tied together. Kept me turning pages to find out what happened.

P A G

Fort divertissant

Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2020

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Une fois la lecture commencée on oublie ou nous sommes et on vie avec les personnages tellement captivants

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Stephen Hocker

Easy read

Reviewed in Brazil on May 29, 2018

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This is the second book in the series that I've read. Superior to the first (which was a freebie - full disclosure!). I would remind the authors that the present participle of the verb 'sit' is 'sitting', of the verb 'stand' is standing, etc...
If you like a good romp with the police, you won't be disappointed.

anna maria

Cleaver square

Reviewed in Italy on August 28, 2018

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Piacevole sorpresa questo thriller dei fratelli campbell, trama molto interessante, personaggi ben delineati e uno scorcio sul sociale che rende il racconto diverso rispetto ad altri, non è un thriller originale ma è molto godibile e io mi sono affezionata ai protagonista, uomo normale ma un mastino come detective.

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K.Visweswaran.

Good one ,Especially with the Old British Chief Detective.

Reviewed in India on May 31, 2018

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Enjoyed reading this book .
Yes British Deductions are slow and steady ,and with Pun .
Recommend my friends to read .

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