DC Jack Warr is clearly destined for higher things, and I look forward to following his progress' - PETER ROBINSON, No.

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The portrayal of Middleton and Amanda are very good and trying to figure them out, especially the latter is a fascinating element. Then his boss DCI Ridley is removed without explanation and a new DCI takes over who just wants to clear open cases.

Jack of course doesn’t take this instruction lying down and is concerned about his friend and mentor. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes. Quote regarding Jack and his illegal use of Holmes police database “Jack knew that many officers did the same. He’s investigating a man who has been been arrested for assault Rodney Middleton , Jack is warned by DCI Ridley that there is more to this case than meets the eye and he needs to dig further in to the case. Despite the really positive reviews I found the book to be lacking engagement with a slower paced writing style than I prefer.

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No one knows where Ridley has gone, or why, until he contacts Jack for help in finding out why he is being held on a charge of murder he swears he didn’t commit. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. As you would expect from bestselling author of Lynda La Plante this is a well written novel, the plot is meaty and solidly constructed, there’s clarity between the two cases and there’s never confusion. We start with a conundrum for Det Jack Warr when he and his fellow officers are told that their boss (and his mentor) DCI Simon Ridley has been removed from his post and they are not to contact him.The writing is excellent as always and Jack as a character has developed from the last book although he remains a complex character , we learn that juggling work and home life isn’t always easy and this leaves him at odds with his wife Maggie at times . And apart from saying that both are well plotted and executed and kept me on the edge of my seat, I'm saying no more about either. More than anything else, La Plante’s writing career was generated by famous books Cold Blood,Cold Shoulder and Cold Hard.

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But after chapters of this homely stuff on showering, eating dinner, drinking wine, bathing baby, lovelife, and reading copious notes on suspected murderer/paedophile Rodney Middleton late into the night I was getting restless for some progress but no such luck.Lynda La Plante is the first lay person to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. As Jack keeps digging, against the wishes of his senior officer, he receives some alarming and disturbing news from his friend and mentor DCI Ridley, who has been mysteriously absent from work.