One Man and His Bomb (Harriet Martens Mysteries)

One Man and His Bomb (Harriet Martens Mysteries)

by HRF Keating (Author)

Synopsis

Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens took great pride in her twin sons deciding to follow her into the police by moving to London and joining the Met. Imagine her horror when, as she sits with her husband over evening drinks, the phone rings and she learns that Graham has been killed by a terrorist bomb and Malcolm is in hospital, gravely injured. Her world falls apart around her. Then, because in the wake of a major bomb outrage in a European city every available Greater Birchester Police officer is occupied with anti-terror precautions, she finds herself investigating the theft from a Birchester research station of a herbicide specimen capable in the wrong hands of causing more destruction than any single bomb. To avoid the panic which news of the theft will set off, she has to work in secrecy, all the while fighting off the overwhelming grief of her loss of Graham and her unceasing fears for Malcolm. All but alone in a deceptive world where no one is quite what they seem, she has to earn again the title once given her of the Hard Detective.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 19 Apr 2007

ISBN 10: 0749081686
ISBN 13: 9780749081683

Media Reviews
'HRF Keating breathes new life into the classic detective story' Reginald Hill 'Go no further if you want to read classic British crime plots that update the Golden Age with a clever dose of modernity... Elegant, urbane' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
Author Bio
HRF KEATING is well versed in the worlds of crime, both fiction and non-fiction. He was the reviewer for The Times for fifteen years, as well as serving as chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Society of Authors, and, next only to Agatha Christie, he has been the longest-serving president of the Detection Club. Best known as the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, he has twice won the CWA Gold Dagger and in 1996 was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. He lives in London with his wife, the actress Sheila Mitchell, who regularly reads his titles as audio books.