Wildfire
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Henry Christie is drawn out of retirement by a brutal killer and must confront old foes in this breathless thriller.
Henry Christie is enjoying a quiet retirement running the Tawny Owl pub – until a devastating moorland fire tears through the surrounding area and he finds himself at the forefront of coordinating the local response. When the occupants of a remote farm can’t be contacted, Henry goes to check on them – and makes a grisly discovery.
Reluctantly agreeing to help the police with their investigation, Henry is reunited with DC Diane Daniels, and is soon confronting an explosive mix of organized crime, violence and drug turf wars which leads him back to his old hunting ground in Blackpool – and old enemies who will stop at nothing to finally have their revenge.
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In Oldham's intricately plotted 26th Henry Christie thriller (after 2018's Bad Cops), the retired Lancaster policeman who runs "a pub and country house hotel out in the wilds of the Lune Valley" decides to check on John and Isobel York to make sure they're safe from the wildfire that's sweeping the countryside. At the couple's house, Christie finds Isobel's naked, decapitated body in the bathtub and John's dismembered body arranged on the snooker table. When he calls Det. Constable Diane Daniels to report the deaths, he learns that Daniels has her hands full with a crime spree that includes murder, a machete attack, arson, and gang warfare. In fact, the local constabulary has so much on its plate that Christie is hired to help investigate the York murders. Oldham smoothly unfurls the fast and furious action and seamlessly stitches together the various threads to form a satisfying whole. Henry's reflections on aging lend a nice touch. Fans of contemporary British police procedurals will be rewarded.
