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The Kill CallIntroduction of the ebook: The Kill Call
Đánh giá : 3.81 /5 (sao)
On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.
Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-kn On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.
Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade. As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past.
History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape — particularly in the ‘plague village’ of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction.
But, even as the final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past. …more
Review ebook The Kill Call
The ninth in the Cooper and Fry novels set in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Detective Sergeant Diane Fry seems to be increasingly paranoid about Detective Constable Ben Cooper with all manner of suspicions but never confronting him. Ben seems to carry on regardless, he is becoming a little to “nice”, and takes on more than his share of the work load. The Inspector DI Hitchins is become more and more remote from the team and the new Superintendent seems to be pursuing some unknown agenda of her own The ninth in the Cooper and Fry novels set in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Detective Sergeant Diane Fry seems to be increasingly paranoid about Detective Constable Ben Cooper with all manner of suspicions but never confronting him. Ben seems to carry on regardless, he is becoming a little to “nice”, and takes on more than his share of the work load. The Inspector DI Hitchins is become more and more remote from the team and the new Superintendent seems to be pursuing some unknown agenda of her own.
The novels have now developed a pattern by starting out well, in a fast readable style. Unfortunately the endings fragment and there are conflicting and not always well brought together story lines which , for me, detract rather than enhance the book.
A four at two thirds distance descending to three star at the finish. …more
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