TY - BOOK AU - Gott,Robert TI - The orchard murders T2 - Holiday murders SN - 9781787829596 PY - 2023/// CY - Leicester [England] PB - Ulverscroft, Aurora KW - Cults KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Australia KW - Private investigators KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Police KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Melbourne (Vic.) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Large type books N2 - In 1944, in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, the brutal deaths of a family herald the return of a long-forgotten cult. A man named Anthony Prescott has declared himself the Messiah, and has promised his followers immortality. There are those who believe him - and who are ready to kill in his name. Inspector Titus Lambert of the Melbourne Homicide unit, whose detectives are over-stretched, requests the discreet assistance of Helen Lord and Joe Sable: once members of his unit, now private inquiry agents. The investigation is more perilous than any of them realise, and will have tragic consequences ER -