Reckless endangerment - Graham Ison

A case of burglary going wrong turns complicated in the latest Brock & Poole mystery

At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The murder victim is Clifford Gregory, the accountant husband of attractive air stewardess Sharon Gregory.

Sharon's account of the break-in that resulted in her husband's murder does not ring true, however, and when Brock and his assistant Detective Sergeant Dave Poole seek to interview Sharon a second time, they find that she has disappeared.

Brock and Poole soon find themselves caught up in a complex investigation where nothing is as it seems and the more they discover about the case, the less they really know.

Graham Ison was in the regular army before joining the Metropolitan Police. During his career in Scotland Yard's Special Branch, he was involved in several famous espionage cases and spent four years at 10 Downing Street as protection officer to the prime minister. He later guarded crowned heads and US presidents during their visits to Britain, and served as second-in-command of the Diplomatic Protection Group. He is an honorary agent of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command.

"Competent plotting and well-drawn characters, such as Det. Kate Ebdon, an Australian with a sharp wit and sharper tongue, make this a consistently entertaining series"
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"Solid plotting, realistic descriptions of police work, and dry wit make an entertaining read."
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