Practise to Deceive

Practise to Deceive

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Synopsis

The cold blooded murder of Kevin Rees, Auxiliary Nurse at the private Howell Clinic for stroke victims, is greeted with apparent sorrow by all who knew him - well, nearly all. 'A born nurse' is the summation of his professional qualities by colleagues and patients alike. But is Dr Edwin Howell, maverick neuro-psychiatrist, and co-owner of the clinic just saving face when he anxiously divines the crime was the work of a burglar? Only when DCI Merlin Parry rejects such a facile solution and digs deeper into Rees's background do the unsavoury aspects of the young man's life emerge. But many of those who knew him seem intent on withholding information from the police. Practise to Deceive is an intriguing and elegant mystery from the pen of an accomplished writer.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 01 Aug 2003

ISBN 10: 0749006714
ISBN 13: 9780749006716

Media Reviews
PRACTISE TO DECEIVE is an excellent book. It is a solid police procedural with top-notch plotting, characterization and use of dialogue. Williams builds in unexpected twists all along the way but always plays fair. I absolutely knew who the killer was, but I was wrong. As the book jacket blurb states, PRACTISE TO DECEIVE is an intriguing and elegant mystery from the pen of an accomplished writer. I can't say it any better than that. -- reviewingtheevidence.com
Author Bio
David Williams was born in Wales and educated at the Cathedral School, Hereford, and St John's College, Oxford. He founded and ran one of the UK's biggest advertising agencies before stepping down due to ill health. Since then he has been a full time writer and is the author of over 20 crime novels. He lives with his wife at Wentworth in Surrey. They have two married children.