Review: An Unseen Attraction

An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Clem Talleyfer runs a boarding house. He is mixed race, of a white British father and Indian mother. He is also neurally diverse in that he doesn't always pick up on hints and signals, some people try to take advantage of him because of that fact. One of the tenants is an unpleasant preacher who too often gets drunk on gin, shouts obscenities and has to be carried up to bed. Unfortunately, it is a condition of the job that this tenant must be accommodated.

Clem's favourite tenant is Rowley Green, a taxidermist who has a shop next door to the lodgings. Clem doesn't know if Mr Green also likes men, because he isn't good at licking up on signals, but he enjoys a cup of tea in his rooms with Mr Green of an evening, just sitting quietly.

Then just as Clem and Rowley seem to be coming to some kind of understanding, the noisy lodger is found tortured and murdered on the doorstep. What's worse, Clem's landlord, his older brother Edmund, insists its all Clem's fault and demands that he find out why the man was murdered.

This was a wonderfully atmospheric mystery, loved it.



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