Night Fall
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
A British detective must navigate an unsolvable case—and a difficult new boss—in a mystery novel that goes "a step beyond a routine procedural" (Kirkus Reviews).
Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget isn't happy about his new boss, Detective Superintendent Amanda Pierce. Not only did Paget consider himself in line for the job, his history with Pierce is painful and personal. But there's no time to dredge up the past when the murder of a local photographer lands Paget the most frustrating case of his career.
Bill Travis was bound and gagged, with the letter A carved into his forehead, before being dropped fifty feet from a bridge onto the railway tracks below. Why all the fuss over a quiet, middle-aged man who, by all accounts, never disturbed anyone? With no witnesses or forensic evidence, the investigation stonewalls, building new tensions between Paget and Pierce. And when a second body shows up, Paget must find the connection between the two victims if he wants to crack the case—and keep his job.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In British author Smith's winning 10th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Neil Paget (after 2012's In the Shadow of Evil), Paget must contend with a new boss, Det. Supt. Amanda Pierce, with whom he has a bitter personal history. He must also try to uncover who was behind the brutal murder of innocuous photographer Billy Travis. Travis's death is the first of a string of murders that rocks the Shropshire town of Broadminster. As the number of victims mounts each is bound, marked with a crudely carved "A," and tossed to his or her death from a height Paget and his crew strive to find a connection between the crimes. Pierce urges the overworked Paget to rely more on capable Det. Sgt. John Tregalles and newly promoted Det. Sgt. Molly Forsythe. Dealing with grieving relatives, jaundiced views of police, tenuous clues, and increasing administrative pressure, Paget and Pierce achieve a functioning d tente in this smoothly plotted, well-written procedural.
