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Starred Review. Twists pile on twists in Kelly's superb whodunit, the possible first in a series. Soon after Det. Insp. Peter Shaw and Det. Sgt. George Valentine, who had been the partner of Shaw's disgraced policeman father, stumble on a corpse on an inflatable raft on a Norfolk beach, the pair are stuck in a blizzard, their car one of many vehicles blocked by a fallen tree. During this mishap, someone kills Harvey Ellis, the driver nearest the obstruction, with a chisel blow to the eye and manages to escape without leaving traces in the snow. Other bodies surface after the police extricate themselves from the scene of Ellis's murder. While Shaw and his team try to untangle the lies told them by every witness they encounter, he also tries to redeem his late father's reputation by reopening the child murder case that brought his father down. Kelly (The Skeleton Man), winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, maintains the suspense throughout. (June)
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British writer Kelly, author of the Philip Dryden series, sets his latest psychological suspense tale along the wind-whipped Norfolk Coast during a particularly scathing snowstorm that strands dozens of motorists. Two cops from the Norfolk Constabulary have answered a call from HM Coast Guard about a sighting of toxic waste near Scolt Head Island. They also spot the body of a man drifting ashore. Within minutes, the cops have found another bodyβthis one in a car, a chisel protruding from his left eye socket. These discoveries lead the reader into myriad hidden crimes, including a far-flung network of animal trafficking. Slowing down the pace considerably is Kellyβs attention to the uneasy (and clichΓ©d) relationship between the starring cops: the young detective inspector Peter Shaw and his fatherβs old partner, the grizzled detective sergeant George Valentine. Except for this hackneyed subplot, this is a fine thriller, in terms of both atmosphere and suspense. --Connie Fletcher
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