Fatal Flaw

by Frank Smith

Book Overview

Fatal Flaw by Frank Smith released on Oct 25, 1999 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031214332X
• ISBN13: 9780312143329
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Solid Brit police procedural

I'm fond of British police procedurals, and Frank Smith's *Fatal Flaw* is a solid contribution to the genre. It held my attention from the first page to the last. Smith lays out some good plot lines and brings us quite a few solid characters. A woman with a secret past starts dating a cop, and that secret becomes central to a murder the detective is investigating. A troubled teenager with a cold ambitious mother is found dead at her boarding school during the holidays - was she driven to suicide, or murdered, or did she die some other way? I would recommend this book to anybody else who enjoys this genre.

Not bad . . .

I am a huge fan of British police procedurals and I was delighted to see a new team had been born. On the whole, Frank Smith's Fatal Flaw does not disappoint, but his second book in this series, Stone Dead is a much better read. Fatal Flaw's story is good and it runs smoothly and quickly. His two coppers, DCI Paget and DS Tregalles are likeable fellows, but I find that the Sergeant has a lot more personality than the somewhat stiff and blah Chief Inspector (Smith spends a little too much time torturing us with Paget's terrible luck in love). But, in the first book and the third (Candles for the Dead), Tregalles almost seems a minor character. All in all, the series is good and I can't wait for the fourth installment.