Soft Summer Blood
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A seemingly open-and-shut case becomes increasingly complicated for Detective Inspector Liam McLusky in this intriguing police procedural.
It all seemed so simple: a murder; an obvious suspect; a shaky alibi: DI McLusky never had it so good. Until a second killing challenges all his earlier assumptions. With every new piece of evidence McLusky brings to light, the case becomes more complicated. Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen years earlier, or is it firmly based in the present?
Meanwhile, DI Kat Fairfield and DS Jack Sorbie are tasked with finding the daughter of a prominent Italian politician, who has disappeared while on a student exchange programme at Bristol University. Neither is overjoyed to be lumbered with a routine missing person’s case while McLusky heads a high-profile murder investigation. Until they find a dead body of their own…
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It's never business as usual for Liam McLusky, as shown by Helton's complex fourth outing for the Bristol, England, detective inspector (after 2014's A Good Way to Go). McLusky investigates the murder of an elderly man who was content to ignore much of the 21st century, particularly its technology. The case appears straightforward until a second murder changes the picture. Meanwhile, Det. Sgt. Jack Sorbie and other officers get reluctantly involved in the thankless task of searching for an Italian official's daughter who has disappeared from her known haunts. Through it all, McLusky barrels his way through, ignoring some of the rules and skating thinly over others. In addition, he worries about passing his upcoming mandated physical fitness exam. He's not the sort of copper to take well to an environment in which the talking heads from the social sciences overrule the search for criminals. Alas, a key character first appears late in the story. Readers trying to solve the case before McLusky may feel cheated.
