Hillary Greene, once a detective inspector with the Thames Valley Police, has retired. Nearing 50, she’d decided to retire and take her houseboat on a cruise through England’s canals. She’s been gone for 18 months, and now she’s returning to police work as a consultant, working in the cold case unit.
She has a new boss, who isn’t sure he wants the famous Hillary Greene on his team or not. She has new colleagues – a retired officer like herself and two part-time college students. Her office is something of a glorified closet. And the first assignment is a 20-year-old murder case that no one was able to crack.
The victim was a housewife in her 30s, hit with a rolling pin in the kitchen. Her husband was a tour bus driver (with a rock-solid alibi) and they had three children, who are now about the age their mother was when she was killed. There was a suspect with a motive – the victim’s sister, unhappy with her younger sister having an affair with her sister’s husband.
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| Faith Martin |
It’s a case with lots of dead ends, people hiding secrets, and no one quite telling the truth. Complicating the investigation is that someone inside the police department is stalking Greene.
Murder Never Retires is the 12th DI Hillary Greene mystery by British writer Faith Martin. It’s a well-written story, with tension building from both developments in the case and the stalker becoming ever-more daring. You know this isn’t going to end well for someone. Or someones.
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.
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.
Murder by Fire by Faith Martin.
Murder at Work by Faith Martin.
Some Thursday Readings
A Classic California Mystery: The Life and Times of Lange Lewis – Randal Brandt at CrimeReads.
The Search for a Vanished Hiker on the PCT – Andrea Lankford at CrimeReads.
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