Published by
Sphere,
5th April 2012.
ISBN:
978-1-84744-571-1
Sunday 4.00 a.m. and a gun shot sounds in the
silent streets of Bath.
Foot patrolman PC Harry Tasker is dead.
A call to the police brings Inspector Ken Lockton - young and new to be
the Senior Officer on a crime of this magnitude, but Lockton is eager to prove
himself. He does all the right things, seals the crime scene, stop points on
all escapes routes, he then intelligently works out from where the sniper must
have fired. Keen to make an early arrest
he sends his sergeant away. Later Lockton is found unconscious and near death.
The
third killing of a police officer in Somerset
in a matter of weeks. Someone is picking
off policemen indiscriminately.
Called into
investigate CID Chief Peter Diamond sets out to find the killer. But investigations stall, as Diamond cannot
find any connection between the three dead policemen.
With no correlation between the three killings, Diamond asks himself is
there a connection? Or, is there more than one killer? Or, is it someone who
just wants to kill policemen? The lines
of enquiry he pursues are as fascinating as the mystery itself.
An
intriguing entry in this excellent series.
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Lizzie
Hayes
Peter Lovesey was born at
home, in a suburban semi in Whitton, Middlesex, in 1936. After Hampton Grammar School,
Peter went to Reading
University to study Fine
Art and soon switched to English. National Service followed — teaching RAF boy
entrants earned him enough to get married and qualified him to teach in FE,
first at Thurrock Technical College,
then Hammersmith College. The last of the Cribb books,
won the 1978 Silver Dagger and in 1987 The False Inspector Drew won the
Gold Dagger. The Summons (1995) and
The Bloodhounds (1996) each won a Silver Dagger. In 2000, Peter was awarded the
Cartier Diamond Dagger for his career in crime writing. He Lives in Chichester.
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