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Fiction. Mystery. Acting DCI Charlie Priest and his reliable crew at Heckley Police Headquarters are presented with a bizarre murder that leads to the discovery of low-tech industrial espionage. But is selling your employer’s confidential records enough to warrant a particularly sadistic murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpires that the victim was an unprepossessing character who may have been chosen simply because of his physical appearance. Happily settled with his new girlfriend, show more Priest is able to throw himself wholeheartedly into his work. Unfortunately, all is not well in his team of hand-picked detectives, and old enmities begin to surface. Another victim is murdered in even more bizarre circumstances, and Charlie begins to wonder if he himself is a catalyst that motivates the killer. When his suspicions are confirmed he realises that he is embroiled in much more than the hunt for a murderer. And that the case has now become personal. show lessTags
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#11 in the series. DI Charlie Priest, "Mister One Hundred Per Cent", the scourge of murderers, and his team at Heckley are faced with a bizarre murder/suicide. The victim has been electrocuted but Charlie has doubts about whether he could have managed to do it himself. But is it a case of assisted suicide? Who on the other hand would want to kill Alfred Armitage? Or was it a case of mistaken identity? When a second strange case turns up Charlie begins to think there is a sort of public avenger at work. An interestingly constructed book - partly in the first person as Charlie Priest's stream of consciousness and partly in third person narrative, telling the readers things Charlie doesn't see or doesn't know. Interesting side plot as his show more new girlfriend Sonia, La Gazelle, former world-class athlete, regains her fitness. show less
Entertaining murder mystery as always. I fell for the red herring clue about the murderer's identity but did work out some of the final denouement from the clues provided.
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- Shooting Elvis
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