Naked Flames
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal and fraud.
DCI Harry Brock’s leisurely Saturday afternoon is shattered when he receives the news that Robert Sharp, a charming, good-looking man in his thirties, has been found dead in a suspicious fire in his hut at the Pretext Club, a nudist club near Harrow.
Besides being a philandering husband, it seems Robert Sharp was a conman on the wanted list of three different constabularies, a chameleon who managed to escape the police’s clutches and justice . . . until now. Plunged into a deadly mix of deception, betrayal and fraud, Harry and his colleague DS Dave Poole soon uncover a number of people with a grudge against Robert, but can they unmask his killer?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In British author Ison's diverting 17th Brock and Poole mystery (after 2018's Deadlock), curmudgeonly yet likable Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command West, and his team, including his clever sidekick, Det. Sgt. David Poole, investigate the suspicious death of a nudist, Robert Sharp, in a fire at a naturist club near Harrow. The fire chief at the scene tells Brock that the evidence suggests that the victim was dead before the fire started. Not surprisingly, Sharp turns out to have been a con man and a philandering husband, who has left a meandering trail of broken hearts and angry, disillusioned women across Britain. Could one of them have wanted him dead? Meanwhile, Brock takes one tiny step closer to the 21st century when he buys a book called Computers for Seniors for Dummies so he can understand the computer lingo his colleagues use. A fine ensemble cast and some amusing dialogue lift this reassuringly anodyne offering. Fans of sweetly old-fashioned police procedurals will be rewarded.
