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"A queasy Detective-Inspector "Jacko" Jackson is at the post-mortem examination of Penny Browne, who was shot through the head at close range in her country home." "Penny was the sister of Russell Browne, a right-wing MP and Home Office minister in charge of the police. A television producer, Penny was as radical as he is reactionary, spending a great deal of time with Rich Richardson, a fiery trade union leader who is young, ambitious - and married. A professional contact - or was he responsible for the pregnancy the pathologist reports Penny had terminated recently?" "Frank Palmer's new police thriller is a story of political and business intrigue, tender love, and mounting tension."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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出版社周刊评论
Political, labor and class strife in modern England lead to murder in this taut and sometimes poignant procedural. Penelope Browne, an upper-class film producer and sister of right-wing MP Russell Browne, is found shot to death in her Hutton-on-Trent cottage. The investigation by Detective Inspector "Jacko" Jackson, last encountered in Bent Grasses, is hampered by his superior's nerves over the brother's position as the new Minister at the Home Office for Police Affairs, but complicating facts come to light early. The child-loving Penelope had had an abortion recently, and she maintained a close friendship, possibly a love affair, with her brother's major political rival, Rich Richardson, a married union leader whose family had been active in labor action for decades against the Brownes' glass works, source of the family wealth. The possibility of IRA involvement is raised early but dismissed. While the married Jacko probes into motives and timetables, he finds himself drawn to fellow investigator WPC Tricia Floyd-Moore, who draws him out of middle-age megrims in Palmer's vividly evoked post-industrial society. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Penelope Browne was an independent TV producer with a nose for corruption in unexpected places, but when Detective Inspector Jacko Jackson begins to look into her shooting, it seems that the most interesting thing about her is that she was the sister of Russell Browne, Member of Parliament for Trent Valley and newly appointed Minister for Police. All Jackson's leads--to Penny's 11th-hour visitor Rich Richardson; to the generational bitterness between the bottling-company Brownes and unionist Richardson and his shop-steward father Dickie; to Dickie's former lieutenant Alan Bond, now a turncoat middle manager at Browne and Green-- seem to lead away from the dead woman, even though Jackson, shaken and maybe prejudiced by his unwonted fancy for Constable Tricia Floyd-Moore, suspects that the key to the murder is Penny's recent abortion. Why would a woman so passionately determined to have children, with or without benefit of clergy, have ended the life she was carrying? Palmer's fourth procedural isn't quite up to the level of Bent Grasses (1995)--the final twist is one too many--but it's still a worthwhile entry in this fine, underrated series.
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When Penny Browne, a leftist filmmaker and sister of right-wing politician Russell Browne, is murdered, the investigation is full of political and personal traps for Inspector Jacko Jackson of the CID. First, Russell Browne is not only a rising light in the Conservative Party, he's also the Home Office minister who oversees the police. Next, Jackson discovers that Penny Browne was having an affair with Rich Richardson, a Labour Party firebrand and her brother's rival in upcoming elections; she's also recently had an abortion. Finally, Jackson has been partnered with an outstanding young woman detective with whom he instantly, unrequitedly, falls in love. Along the way, Jackson will unloose the skeletons in both the Browne and Richardson family closets. Palmer has created a challenging mystery with several neat twists along the way. His specialty is creating well-rounded characters, both major and minor; a case in point is Richardson's father, a veteran of the class wars of the 1950s and 1960s, and someone with a long history of hatred for the Browne family. This terrific police procedural should appeal to most mystery fans. --George Needham