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Dead Water
Roderick Alleyn Book 23
Book 23 of the Roderick Alleyn series.On a small island famed for a supposedly healing spring, pilgrims and profiteers crowd around the holy well. Alleyn’s former schoolteacher inherits the place and tries to end the commercial circus, only to become the target of threats and a violent crime that tests local loyalties.
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On a small island famed for a supposedly healing spring, pilgrims and profiteers crowd around the holy well. Alleyn’s former schoolteacher inherits the place and tries to end the commercial circus, only to become the target of threats and a violent crime that tests local loyalties.
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Is Dead Water part of a series?
Dead Water is linked to Part of the Roderick Alleyn series as book 23..
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A good next step after Dead Water is A Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer, The Nursing Home Murder.
When was Dead Water published?
Dead Water was published in 1963.