Dangerous Pursuits
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Descripción editorial
When Gabriel Ash comes across a terrified young woman fleeing a brutal attacker, he and Hazel Best are drawn into a complex and baffling investigation.
Rachel Somers, running . . . Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come to her aid, she thinks she's safe. But this is Norbold, where things aren't always as they seem.
Detective Chief Inspector Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill rather than be taken. Constable Hazel Best thinks she's helping both the Somers family and her friend Ash, but her tendency to follow her heart rather than her orders is about to get her into trouble again. And the people of Norbold have noticed that descriptions of the attacker, sketchy as they are, fit Ash better than they fit anyone else.
With panic stalking the town, DCI Gorman needs to make an arrest before more young girls are attacked, before someone else dies, before the vigilantes who burned Ash's shop decide to burn him too. But the parameters keep shifting, and almost none of the facts he's relying on will turn out to be true. The solution to the mystery is more shocking, and more tragic, than even these three could have imagined.
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Bookshop owner Gabriel Ash, a former spy whose mental breakdown has left him with socialization issues and a tendency to hold long conversations with his dog, Patience, gets into trouble in Bannister's enjoyable seventh mystery set in Norbold, England (after 2019's Silent Footsteps). That these dialogues are often held in public has led most of the citizens of Norbold to regard Ash as the town nutcase. While Gabriel is out walking with Patience, 17-year-old Rachel Somers races up to him and begs for his help, saying that an unidentified man has tried to rape her. Gabriel notifies the police, who then discover the murdered body of Rachel's mother's boyfriend. Two days later, two 14-year-old girls report being chased by a man vaguely resembling Gabriel. That's all some locals need to target him as a dangerous pedophile. Gabriel and Constable Hazel Best, his close friend, race to discover the murderer's identity before more violence erupts. The gradual change in the rapport between Gabriel and Hazel will please series fans. Newcomers will be likewise enchanted by this distinctive pair.