[Inspector Peach 06] - A Little Learning

✍ Scribed by J M Gregson

• Book ID: 100108678
• Publisher: Endeavour Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

One weekend in November, two students at the University of East Lancashire are at a loose end.

After having one drink too many, the idea of committing the Perfect Crime comes up in casual conversation.

But the idea is already fully-formed in the mind of one of them, Paul Barnes.

Claptrap Carter, the director of the university, is a pompous fool.

Who better to be the victim of a crime that can never be unravelled?

But as Paul and his friend Gary stage a break-in into Claptrap's mansion, they don't realise that his dead body is already waiting for them.

Detective Inspector Percy Peach takes the lead on the investigation but with an endless list of suspects, can he find the murderer amongst them?

Theres Carters soon to be ex-wife, his envious colleague and gorgeous mistress in contention, as well as the ringleaders of the campus drug scene

With suspects holding on to secrets and alibis falling through, Peach needs to dig through the lies and suspicions to find the real culprit.

'A Little Learning' is an expertly plotted crime thriller from a master story-teller.

Praise for J. M. Gregson:

Peach is as distinctive as Inspector Morse Booklist.

A clever mystery Kirkus.

Compelling characters Booklist.

Stylishly written and suspenseful Booklist.

James Michael Gregson taught for twenty-seven years in schools, colleges and universities before concentrating on full-time writing. He has written books on subjects as diverse as golf and Shakespeare. His other crime novels include Making a Killing, Stranglehold and Body Politic.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

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From Publishers Weekly

Two students with mild Raskolnikov complexes get schooled by the very clever detective inspector Percy Peach in A Little Learning, by Lancastrian J.M. Gregson (To Kill a Wife). When Paul Barnes and Gary Pilkington attempt to burgle the pretentious university head Claptrap Carter, their perfect crime is interrupted by their discovery of his body; with practically everybody on campus a suspect, it will take all Peach's insight to find the culprit amid a tangled web of lies, blackmail and university politics.

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From Booklist

Two University of East Lancashire undergrads break into a professor's home, planning to steal his rare books, but find him dead when they arrive. On their way to collaring the murderer, Detective Inspector Percy Peach and Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake uncover a hotbed of crime that extends from forged academic credentials to a drug ring. This latest Percy Peach mystery is smartly paced with a difficult mystery and a clever killer. Gregson combines attractive glimpses of autumn in the Lake Country with detail-rich accounts of English police procedures in drug investigations. Peach remains a captivating character, whether he is poking fun at pompous superiors or deriding Blake's knowledge of Shakespeare and Goldsmith. This series will appeal primarily to fans of the jauntier British procedurals, those in the Inspector Morse mold, but it will also attract the academic crowd, especially readers of Gregson's other series featuring Lambert and Hook John Rowen

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