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The discovery of Bradley Pine's body in a lay-by off a busy road clearly signals the end of his bid to win the local bye-election. But what is even clearer - from the state in which the corpse is found - is that this is no ordinary murder.Why would the killer run the risk of dumping the body in such a public place, DCI Charlie Woodend asks himself?
And, even more significantly, why should he - post mortem - decide not only to reduce his victim's mouth to a pulp but also to partly disembowel him?With the election looming - and Chief Constable Marlowe, Woodend's old enemy, taking over Pine's place as candidate - the pressure is on to come up with a result. Any result!
But the more Woodend learns of the case, the more he comes to believe that not only is the motive behind the murder at least as bizarre the crime itself, but that the origins of the crime lie in a mountain-climbing tragedy which occurred three years earlier.|The discovery of Bradley Pine's body off a busy road signals the end of his bid to win a local election. But why would the killer risk dumping the body so publicly? And why should he not only reduce the victim's mouth to pulp, but partly disembowel him? With the election looming, and Woodend's old enemy Marlowe replacing Pine as candidate, Woodend is required to produce a result. Any result!
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November 1, 2006
Chief Constable Marlowe, the ever-present enemy of Chief Inspector Woodend ("Stone Killer"), is beaten out of the running for Parliament by wealthy Bradley Pine. But Pine is then murdered, and Marlowe, who takes Pine's place in the election, gives the case to Woodend with the admonishment that he not look into Pine's background too closely. Woodend's homicide team immediately begins to dig, and the facts they uncover force them to reconsider the death of Alec Hawtrey, Pine's mentor and business partner, who was killed years earlier in a mountain climbing accident involving Pine. Set in 1960s Lancashire, Spencer's procedurals feature personable and flawed characters and are as finely plotted as the crime novels of Minette Walters and Jo Bannister. Spencer, who usually ends each book with a hint of what's to come in the next entry, lives in Spain.Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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September 1, 2006
Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend has big problems. First, Bob Rutter, one of his best detectives, has just returned to work after a nervous breakdown following a torrid affair with a colleague and the savage murder of his wife. Can Rutter handle the job, or is he too mentally fragile? Then there's Detective Monika Paniatowski, who had the affair with Rutter. Can the pair work together and forget about the past? But these problems pale in comparison with Woodend's latest case. Political candidate Brad Pine, a local businessman, has been brutally murdered, and his murder seems to hinge on an event from years earlier, when Pine and two friends were stuck in a mountain blizzard; only Pine and one of his pals survived. What happened on the mountain that could have resulted in Pine's murder? A solid, well-plotted British procedural that will entertain both fans of this fine series and procedural addicts in general.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)
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