After a recent promotion, Detective Sergeant Judy Best must prove herself to a new boss--who is sly and difficult--while untangling a complicated web of suspects and motives in the murder of Tory leader John Bullock
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From Publishers Weekly:
Cook's exhaustive depiction of British party politics may dampen American readers' interest in this third tale, after Dead Fit and Upperdown, starring Detective Sergeant Judy Best. Judy discovers the body of Conservative councilman John Bullock at the bottom of a quarry and must fight for the high-profile case. Bullock's death is cause for celebration among many local constituencies: the poor of the borough, those paying the heavy poll tax, labor supporters and even Conservative voters who opposed his hard-line views and gruff manner. There are few additional mourners among his nonpolitical acquaintances, including a disgruntled partner in a real estate business, an indifferent wife and a blackmailer. Best, trying to impress her boss, wends her way through a chauvinistic world to a satisfying resolution. Cook's observations are sharp but fussy: scenes tend to drag under the weight of extended descriptions. This competent work is in the same vein, but missing the light touch, of Simon Brett's or Robert Barnard's stories.
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- PublisherFoul Play Pr
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0881503029
- ISBN 13 9780881503029
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages219