Sholto Lestrade was much smarter than Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson put together. At least, that is the premise of this delightful series of books—part detective novel and part historical fiction. For fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the revisionist version of the Holmes legend would be damnab...
Again, there is a theme that runs through the novel and, as an avid reader, I wanted to solve the riddle of how all of these victims fit together well before Lestrade got around to doing so within the pages of the novel. Alas, I found myself hooked by red herrings and wondering just how M. J. Tru...
Two men had the job of tracing seventeen-year-old Jenny Hyde's killer. One was Chief Inspector Henry Hall, an elitist cop of the old school, who was driving in one direction only - to the top. It was his job. His territory. The other was Peter Maxwell - "Mad Max" - widower, film buff, golden-hear...
MAXWELL'S POINT is the 12 book in what seems to now be a 14 book series. Having never read any of the earlier books, I was particularly curious to see whether or not the series could be picked up well down the track without this reader feeling lost, and more than a little confused. It did take a ...
‘Mr Wilkes!’ she hissed back. ‘If you persist in these interruptions, I shall have to ask you to leave.’ ‘This is a theatre, policewoman, not an extension of your bloody Incident Room.’ Wilkes was a patient man. But his theatre had come into disrepute recently. He felt fingers pointed at him wher...
Although her mother had protested loudly over the cat’s presence in Nolan’s bedroom, Jacquie had been firm. Metternich was not allowed in there as a matter of course, only when he and Nolan had stuff to discuss and, if ever there was a cat who wouldn’t sleep on a child’s face, then that cat was t...
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He became a compulsive gambler and won the nickname “Lucky” because of the rare times he won. The name may even have been ironic. He was at school, in the army and in the City of London, a small area within Greater London that is a major business and financial center, with rich men to whom placin...
He mused to himself that he really should have brought them up from Surrey’s pannier a little sooner, but it had given him the chance to chat to Julian the Heavy. ‘Not packing today, Julian?’ he had asked cheerily, well within earshot of the patrolling policeman and the re...
He was still asleep as the day shift started to arrive and Jacquie for one hoped that would remain the case for a while. She thought she had better bring Henry Hall up to date and went up to his office. She was about to knock on the door when it flew open and Bob Thorogood barrelled out, red in t...
I was just finishing a meeting.’ Henry Hall waved away the last stragglers from the briefing. How gripping could budget estimates be?‘It’s just that … I don’t really know where to begin.’ Jacquie began to pace back and forth along the landing. She always thought better when she was on the move. ‘...
He was useless these days at guessing children’s ages, but from the height of the line of snot and ice-cream dribble gradually building up on his jacket, he thought they were probably around about seven. He looked with admiration at the teachers shepherding their charges and wondered that they lo...