A Detective In Love

By H.R.F. Keating

Book Overview

DCI Harriet Martens is nicknamed the Hard Detective. But for Harriet, love proves more dangerous than any of her cases... Britain's number one tennis star, the beautiful Bubbles Xingara, has been murdered in the grounds of her luxurious house. Harriet is now in charge of a case that will have the world's media - already massing for the start of Wimbledon - out in force. But it is not the investigation that is about to explode Harriet's life. Nor the string of murder suspects. For it seems that the happily married Hard Detective has fallen passionately in love with a fellow officer. As her obsession with Anselm Brent - her junior officer - develops, can she keep her eye on this high-profile case while navigating the chopping waters of a new, and secret, liaison? What further challenges are facing this troubled 'Detective in Love'? And can she still catch her prey? 'A Detective in Love' is a gripping crime thriller from a master of the genre. Praise for H.R.F Keating: 'H.R.F. Keating breathes new life into the classic detective story.' Reginald Hill 'An engaging and exemplary book' Sister Wendy Beckett, Good Book Guide H.R.F. Keating, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. He has served as Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Society of Authors, and in 1987 was elected President of the Detection Club. He has written numerous novels as well as non-fiction. He is perhaps best known for his Inspector Ghote series, the first of which, The Perfect Murder, was made into a film by Merchant Ivory and won a CWA Gold Dagger award, as did The Murder of the Maharajah. A Detective in Love is the second in H.R.F. Keating's Harriet Martens series, following The Hard Detective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540722597
• ISBN13: 9781540722591
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

delightful police procedural

Barbara "Bubbles" Xingara is the media darling of the tennis world and is expected to win at Wimbledon, but she never gets the chance because somebody murders her on her own estate. Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens is known in the media as The Hard Detective because of her tough stance on criminals and because she never gives up until she catches the perpetrator she is after.The Leven Vale police chief specifically requests that Harriet is assigned as the lead in the case. When she arrives on the crime scene she meets Detective Inspector Anselm Brent and immediately falls into lust. Harriet fights her feelings for the man while she is working on the case with him. This turns into a difficult scenario even for as gifted a person as The Hard Detective.The use of the first person narrative allows the reader to feel the protagonist's emotions and this leads to readers empathizing with her struggle to be faithful to her husband. The who-done-it is solved by good old-fashioned police work but the heart of this tale lies with the internal battle Harriet wages to do what is right.Harriet Klausner