Detective Inspector Hillary Greene is retiring.
She’s handed in her notice, made her plans for what she’ll be doing afterward (exploring England’s canals in her boat), and finding herself unable to imagine her existence post-retirement.
Her old team in slipping away. One is getting married; another has already gone off to be a sports agent. The third is almost too new to be “the old team.” Her boss is transferring back to York. One internal nemesis is being transferred (in something approaching disgrace), and he’s determined to bring DI Greene down before he goes. Another nemesis, Greene’s Detective Sergeant Frank Ross, has been forced to retire and is now working as a night security guard at a business complex, where he’s helping to orchestrate a bit of theft.
Her boss’s boss, Superintendent Marcus Donleavy, is not happy with Greene’s decision to retire. He devises a plan that he thinks will change her mind – he tells her boss to assign the next murder case to her. Donleavy knows she can’t resist a murder case, and he knows it will likely the case will push past Greene’s retirement date.
And sure enough, a murder case arrives. A man is found bludgeoned to death at the very same business complex where Frank Ross works. And it’s Frank Ross who finds the body. And, just at Donleavy hoped, the case looks for all the world that it will last beyond Greene’s retirement date. The victim was divorced, something of a man about town with an eye for women, a fairly successful gambler. He seemed to have been well liked, except by his former lovers. It’s hard enough to find decent suspects, and this case, Greene and her team can’t even find a motive.
Faith Martin
Murder at Work is the eleventh mystery novel in the DI Hillary Greene series by British author Faith Martin. It’s full of twists and turns, but with a major difference from its predecessors. Will retirement bring an end to the Hillary Greene series? Will one of our favorite detectives go sailing off into the canal sunset? And will she and her team solve the crime in time for her retirement to happen?
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.
The short answer to Greene’s retirement question is, if she does or doesn’t, there are still eight more in the DI Greene series to come. I know, because I looked at the listings on Amazon.
Related:
Murder on the Oxford Canal by Faith Martin.
Murder at the University by Faith Martin.
Murder of the Bride by Faith Martin.
Murder in the Village by Faith Martin.
Murder in the Family by Faith Martin.
Murder at Home by Faith Martin.
Murder in the Meadow by Faith Martin.
Murder in the Mansion by Faith Martin.
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