Detective Inspector James Munro has retired from police work. He’s living in Scotland, still mourning the loss of his wife who died in a arson-set fire. But a former colleague in Scotland asks him to step in and take over a murder case, before the local police have to turn it over to authorities.
Munro tracks down his former detective sergeant, Charlotte West. She’s returning from an extended retreat, and she doesn’t have to return to London for some time. But Munro and West have only five days.
The case involves the murder of a woman, found in a glen outside a small town. At first it was thought the death was accidental, but the blows on the back of her head are too uniform and the medical examiner determines she was actually poisoned with antifreeze.
Pete Brassett
Suspects abound: the divorced first husband; the former second husband; the estranged daughter; and the former lover -- and that's for starters. She had a track record of seeking our people with money. Munro and West have a considerable amount of investigating to do in a short period of time. The victim seems to have had a penchantTo complicate matters, Munro finds himself the object of affection the top local police official, who finds him much to her liking, and West is pursued by one of the local police sergeants.
Avarice is the second mystery novel in the Munro & West series by Scottish author Pete Brassett, and it’s a classic police procedural leavened by humor and wit. The story keeps the reader guessing, even when we think we have it all figured out. Both Munro and West are engaging characters, even with their quirks and all-tooh-uman flaws.
Brassett, a native Scot, has published 10 novels in the Munro and West series, as well as a number of general fiction and mystery titles.
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