
The Winds of Change
Richard Jury, Book 19
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Narrated by:
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Steve West
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By:
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Martha Grimes
As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.
While examining the body of an unidentified woman murdered in the gardens of Declan Scott's estate, Angel Gate, Brian Macalvie, commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, realizes he's been here before. Three years prior, Declan's stepdaughter, four-year-old Flora, was abducted while she and her mother Mary were visiting the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Shortly after that, Mary Scott herself died, and Declan was devastated by the loss of his child and his wife.
"He really doesn't need a body in his garden," says Macalvie.
Joined by the intrepid Melrose Plant, now a gardener at Angel Gate, Jury and Macalvie rake over the present and the past in a pub near Launceston called the Winds of Change. With one of their most serpentine investigations under way, all signs point to the guilt of Viktor Baumann, Mary Scott's first husband and Flora's father. But when no one in this case is exactly who he seems, how can Jury be sure?
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Unnecessary details of child abuse.
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Another winner
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Now the story is a bit on the dark side. I promise not to give to much away but there is a few terrifying chapters where Richard Jury is willing to put himself and his job on the line to save some children. Which endeared me more to him. But even he is sickened as to what he must say and do in order to get the children out of danger. I have to say I found it a bit nauseatingly sick myself. Which brought to mind how undercover police must feel having to pretend to be the filth they so desperately want to lock up.
On a side note: I have read some of the reviews for this book and was quite surprised how many readers and listeners remarked on a very small scene in which Wiggins was very uncomfortable with a boy with Down syndrome. Taking it for what it’s worth Wiggins is portrayed like, sadly, many people who cannot get past another human being different. By his actions and his words he shows his ignorance. But what I saw was Richard Jury treated with respect and as he was a boy. Richard show empathy and did not look down on this young boy. The scene is so small in comparison with the rest of the story and the seriousness what is really going on with Child Sex Trafficking and Pedophiles.
Amazing Story!!!
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A heavy subject
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A short walk on the dark side
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Excellent
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Confused
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Increasingly disappointed.
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HOWEVER, The Winds of Change contains some extremely ignorant statements re Down Syndrome, statements not spoken by a character, but stated as fact. What statements? 1. That Down’s Syndrome is a curse. 2. That a boy with Down Syndrome, who says the name of his dead sister when the adults around him begin discussing her, is merely trying out a word. That “any” word would do, as the boy doesn’t know the significance of his sister’s name, doesn’t know what any word means. 3. That a boy with Down’s Syndrome should have been “taken care of”, placed in an institution, rather than live at home. ALSO, 2 of the book’s characters react hideously to this boy, including shuddering (and freaking out) at the boy wanting to stand next to one of them, resting his hand on the seated character’s forearm.
Lost stars, owing to ignorant bigotry re Down’s Syndrome
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