Silent Footsteps
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Constable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural.
When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim’s friends are waylaid in the dark and beaten bloody? When she receives photographs memorializing these events? Or when people start dying?
For Constable Hazel Best, the pivot point is the attack on her friend Gabriel Ash. That’s when she focuses all her ingenuity on finding the man responsible. Her police colleagues would be more help if they weren’t already occupied with two murders – but assistance does arrive from an unexpected source.
In the end, though, Hazel must deal with the stalker alone. And more than her own life will depend on the outcome …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Bannister's diverting sixth Hazel Best and Gabriel Ash mystery (after 2018's Kindred Spirits), Hazel, a constable in Norbold, England, disarms a low-level thug, Trucker Watts, who's menacing a fellow passenger on a train. A short time later, someone kills Watts and leaves his body by a large waste container. Hazel subsequently uncovers a link between Watts and a shady Birmingham businessman. Meanwhile, Hazel becomes the target of a stalker, whose anonymous attentions escalate from bouquets and chocolates to deadlier tributes. An assault on her close friend Gabriel, a former spy who now runs a secondhand bookshop, raises the stakes. Readers, unlike Hazel, will have little difficulty spotting the villain, who lures her into the woods, where Ash sends his dog, Patience, with whom he has frequent conversations, in search of Hazel. Ash's eccentric musings and Hazel's impetuous behavior offer some entertaining interludes, as do Patience's telepathic responses to Ash. Fans of offbeat police procedurals will be rewarded.
