When a young man accidently drives off a bridge and into the Malminster river, and a prominent town official's mistress is murdered, Chief Inspector Morrisey delves deeply into a burgeoning town scandal. By the author of Stoney Places.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
By following her villains almost as closely as she does her sleuths, Mitchell ( In Stony Places ) eliminates nearly all suspense from this police procedural, the third to feature Chief Inspector Morrisey of the English village of Malminster. A fatal firebombing of the home of Asian immigrants seems racially motivated; the police don't suspect anyone in Malminster's own corrupt town council. Nor do they consider foul play when 38-year-old town planner Richard Simms has a heart attack and dies in the resultant car crash, despite the insistence of his widow Claire that something is amiss. Det. Sgt. Barrett locates some of the firebombers, but not their leader. An anonymous call to Claire ("Leave things alone . . . while you still have two children") and a burglar who searches through Richard's papers spur the police to connect the bombing to Simms's death. Eventually the sleuths catch up with the reader and trace the crimes to local bureaucrats, after which they undoubtedly submit reports--in triplicate--as bland and unengaging as this account.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A third outing for Chief Inspector Morrissey of Malminster Township (In Stony Places, etc.) begins with the tragic but seemingly innocent death of hard-working architect-town planner Richard Simms--in a car crash brought on by a heart attack. But his widow Claire is sure there's something more behind his death--a feeling reinforced by the disappearance of his briefcase and an anonymous telephone threat to her young children. Meanwhile, Morrissey and capable sidekick Barrett are working on incidents of race hatred violence that are slowly emptying a neighborhood built on potentially valuable land--land coveted by a corrupt band of town planners, aided in no small way by their spy in the police department. Mitchell's sensitive treatment of the domestic lives of her heroes and villains is as artful as her skill at weaving all the dangling threads of a complex puzzle into a coherent, totally compelling whole. A can't-put-it-down gem of a British procedural. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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