Just as she’s leaving work for the day, Detective Inspector Hillary Greene is stopped by her boss and handed what he knows will make her happy – a murder investigation. A man running for the Conservative Party slot for Parliament has been found in his kitchen, his head bashed in. Greene and her team begin the case, but every possible lead goes nowhere.
At the same time, a major police operation is in the works – to get, once and for all, Oxford’s local crime boss. This time, the new police superintendent is in charge – the man sent to Oxford from the Met in London. It’s an elaborate operation involving two police forces; Hillary is involved as is her boss, her team, and several other police officers from their office.
The operation goes wrong, badly wrong. The villain is killed; Hillary herself is shot while pushing her boss out of harm’s way. While she recovers, she begins to think of all the anomalies that arose during the operation – things that happened that shouldn’t have. She begins to investigate what really happened.
Faith Martin
Murder in the Village is the fourth Hillary Greene mystery by Faith Martin, and after a slow start, it becomes one of those stories you simply can’t put down. Martin builds the tempo and the tension very well indeed, with two separate crimes under investigation and a major dose of internal police politics.
In addition to the DI Hillary Greene novels, Martin (a pen name for Jacquie Walton) has also published the Ryder and Loveday novels as well as the Jenny Sterling mysteries. Under the name Joyce Cato, she has published several non-series detective stories. Both Cato and Martin are also pen names for Walton. (Walton has another pen name as well – Maxine Barry, under which she wrote 14 romance novels.) A native of Oxford, she lives in a village in Oxfordshire.
Related:
Murder on the Oxford Canal by Faith Martin.
Murder at the University by Faith Martin.
Murder of the Bride by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Obsession by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Mistake by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Secret by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Truth by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Affair by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Night by Faith Martin.
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