Crooked Street
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy investigates the disappearance of a young husband – and discovers all is not as it seems.
Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one miserable March night, she rings the police, certain that something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical: there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. So what is the truth about Jadon?
As the investigation proceeds, it soon becomes apparent that Jadon Glover has been keeping dark secrets from his wife. And as the police pursue their house-to-house enquiries through the claustrophobic, jumbled streets of cramped Victorian terraces, they unearth other secrets from behind the net curtains. But, whatever else has been going on among the inhabitants’ quiet, desperate lives, it’s clear that at least one of them knows what really happened to Jadon …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Early in British author Masters's tantalizing 13th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2015's Guilty Waters), Eve Glover phones the Leek, Staffordshire, police station to report that her financial-adviser husband, Jadon, is three hours late getting home from the accountancy firm where he works. It's now past midnight. The cheery officer she speaks to tries to reassure her, but he's thinking of the four S's: "sex, sozzled, smash-up, sanity (loss of)." By morning, Jadon has still not returned home. Piercy takes charge of the ensuing investigation, assisted by her muscular sidekick, Mike Korpanski. Initially, the case doesn't excite Piercy ("We're reduced to searching for errant husbands. There's bugger all else interesting going on"). However, a visit to Eve, who's quite attractive, piques the detective's interest and poses a series of questions, among them how well Eve really knew her husband. Piercy's search for the truth takes her from a tidy but sterile suburban home into a seedier, sadder, and more threatening world.
