When Tabitha Wardle is murdered, everyone in Calford suspects her husband of the crime, but out-of-town investigator Inspector Lyle believes that there is more to the killing than domestic violence. By the author of Blind Brag.
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From Publishers Weekly
A policeman is suspected of murdering his wife in veteran author Wainwright's ( The Man Who Wasn't There ) engaging procedural. On patrol in the Yorkshire village of Gauntley, Constable Alex Wardle finds the body of his wife, Tabithanot Tabitha? CK , glad you picked up on that; reviewer repeated the error on galley promo/sss her chest blown away by a shotgun. She was known to be a nymphomaniac, and even Wardle's daughter thinks he alone had a motive to kill her. Or so she tells detective inspector Lyle, brought in to help with the investigation. Hindered by sloppy police work and the officers' belief that "nobody in Gauntley is capable of killing," Lyle interviews some of Tabitha's possible partners, but senses that the gaps between the few facts of the case are where he will find the killer. Readers will enjoy the story's satisfying resolution, Wainwright's psychological asides and his deft portrayals of Gauntley residents, whose invasive network of narrow-minded gossip he lays bare.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Detective-Superintendent Lyle of Rogate-on-Sands (The Man Who Wasn't There, etc.), again to the rescue. He's been called in by police brass of the Calfordshire district to solve the three-month- old murder of Tabitha Wardle, promiscuous wife of a local constable. The original investigation was bungled from the start, then dealt a final blow when its guiding force--Chief Superintendent Hunt--suffered a near-fatal auto accident. Lyle moves in--to the Thatched Oak hotel, after which the reader gets an ongoing account of the menu, along with Lyle's pompous interviews with all those involved--from the two police officers who found the bloody corpse in rural Hangman's Lane to the staff at Thatched Oak, where Tabitha made frequent use of one of the rooms. Lyle gets his man, of course, but he grows ever more self- admiring and supercilious in a rambling story weighed down with fussy detail, inane dialogue, and pretentious style. An irritating low in this author's wildly uneven production. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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