Murder On The Back Burner

SYNOPSIS – MURDER ON THE BACK BURNER

Jeremy Martyne has thoroughly enjoyed his millionaire's holiday in Rhodes and reluctantly heads back to his mundane existence at home in Norfolk, already looking forward to the next time he can go back to his other hidden life on the Greek island, happily unaware that it will never be.

When his house explodes from an apparent gas leak his death is at first taken to be an unfortunate accident, even by the fire investigators, but is actually the first in a series of apparently motiveless murders of ex-Metropolitan police officers, made to look like accidents or suicide. Martyne's death is not believed to be sinister until his Aunt Violet's pensioners' brigade alerts DCI Tony Dyce to the possibility of murder. It still appears to be a one-off, but when other deaths begin to occur among Martyne's old colleagues, with some of whom Tony Dyce, ex-Metropolitan police himself, had a passing acquaintance twenty years earlier, the heat is on to find the talented, well-funded killer.

The forensic science is deep, dirty and diligent, and Jane Keller is right there with her husband in the search for a motive, which they find lies way back in the past.

SYNOPSIS – MURDER ON THE BACK BURNER

Jeremy Martyne has thoroughly enjoyed his millionaire's holiday in Rhodes and reluctantly heads back to his mundane existence at home in Norfolk, already looking forward to the next time he can go back to his other hidden life on the Greek island, happily unaware that it will never be.

When his house explodes from an apparent gas leak his death is at first taken to be an unfortunate accident, even by the fire investigators, but is actually the first in a series of apparently motiveless murders of ex-Metropolitan police officers, made to look like accidents or suicide. Martyne's death is not believed to be sinister until his Aunt Violet's pensioners' brigade alerts DCI Tony Dyce to the possibility of murder. It still appears to be a one-off, but when other deaths begin to occur among Martyne's old colleagues, with some of whom Tony Dyce, ex-Metropolitan police himself, had a passing acquaintance twenty years earlier, the heat is on to find the talented, well-funded killer.

The forensic science is deep, dirty and diligent, and Jane Keller is right there with her husband in the search for a motive, which they find lies way back in the past.