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24 Hours from Tulse Hill
Can Scotland Yard detective, Rob Trent recover from a bullet-shattered hip, damaged reputation, broken heart and impending mid-life crisis? Does Bournemouth hold the answer?
Rob Trent is frightened, insecure, intolerant, vulnerable and a bit of a drama queen; just normal then for a bloke pushing forty. Parting from his soul-mate Sarah makes life unbearable for Trent, as well for the people who have to work with him in Scotland Yard's Bloc-busters Squad. Self-pity leads to neglect of himself and his work, and he is shot during a raid on a gang of human traffickers.
Convalescing in his seaside home town of Bournemouth, he tries to rid himself of his demons as well as his crutches. The local CID boss thinks Trent's salvation will come through volunteering to help his own depleted squad of detectives.
Reluctantly Trent agrees, and is soon investigating the murders of an ABBA tribute band musician, two young women, a B&B landlady, the suicide of a former Swinging Sixties glamour model from the archives and human remains found buried at her New Forest stately home.
His multi-tasking malaise isn't helped by a middle-aged Detective Constable trying to re-invent himself, a policewoman who thinks he's Mr Right and a ne'er-do-well corrupt Detective Inspector who is convinced that Trent is agent provocateur.
To solve anything Trent needs more bodies, but he just keeps finding dead ones.
Rob Trent is frightened, insecure, intolerant, vulnerable and a bit of a drama queen; just normal then for a bloke pushing forty. Parting from his soul-mate Sarah makes life unbearable for Trent, as well for the people who have to work with him in Scotland Yard's Bloc-busters Squad. Self-pity leads to neglect of himself and his work, and he is shot during a raid on a gang of human traffickers.
Convalescing in his seaside home town of Bournemouth, he tries to rid himself of his demons as well as his crutches. The local CID boss thinks Trent's salvation will come through volunteering to help his own depleted squad of detectives.
Reluctantly Trent agrees, and is soon investigating the murders of an ABBA tribute band musician, two young women, a B&B landlady, the suicide of a former Swinging Sixties glamour model from the archives and human remains found buried at her New Forest stately home.
His multi-tasking malaise isn't helped by a middle-aged Detective Constable trying to re-invent himself, a policewoman who thinks he's Mr Right and a ne'er-do-well corrupt Detective Inspector who is convinced that Trent is agent provocateur.
To solve anything Trent needs more bodies, but he just keeps finding dead ones.
308 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 30, 2010
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June 28, 2024
I don't do book reviews
I don't do book reviews like you keep seeing, as I find that some give too much of the plot away and I personally hate that, as it makes the book not worth reading. I much prefer to take the authors back cover write up as a review as it can either intrigue you enough to read the book of provide you enough information to make you decide that the book is not for you.
My review rules are: The more stars, the more I liked it.
If there are too many typos or errors the less stars I give
If the storyline or plot is poor or contains too many errors, the characters are too weak, the ending lacking something, then the less stars I give.
Simple, uncomplicated and to the point without giving anything away.
Some of the books I read have been given to me by the author as a pre-release copy and this does not bias my reviews in any way.
I don't do book reviews like you keep seeing, as I find that some give too much of the plot away and I personally hate that, as it makes the book not worth reading. I much prefer to take the authors back cover write up as a review as it can either intrigue you enough to read the book of provide you enough information to make you decide that the book is not for you.
My review rules are: The more stars, the more I liked it.
If there are too many typos or errors the less stars I give
If the storyline or plot is poor or contains too many errors, the characters are too weak, the ending lacking something, then the less stars I give.
Simple, uncomplicated and to the point without giving anything away.
Some of the books I read have been given to me by the author as a pre-release copy and this does not bias my reviews in any way.
September 3, 2015
This was an excellent read! A British police procedural whodunit that really brought the drama and challenges in a fun and interesting way. Trond is a washed up Detective Sergeant from the New Scotland Yard, who was shot in the line of duty but had been a major screw-up for the past 6 months or so. He is at home rehabilitating in the small town he grew up in when the local constabulary decides to take an interest in his plight and offers him a way to redeem himself. He agrees to sigh on to help out while he is still recovering, and winds up in the motherload of cases from Hades. There is the death of the tribute band singer, the death of a pensioner that unravels a couple of cold cases from 15 years ago, the body of a young woman who washed up on the shore, and of course, all sorts of other nasty business surrounding the guy he is supposedly covering for while that bloke is supposedly on holiday to Spain to see his mother. Then another dead woman shows up, with a similar death blow, but different crime scene, and pretty soon, all the cases begin to run together. Read it and find out how Trond manages to solve most of the crimes, get himself promoted to DI, and finds himself a new serious girlfriend who is not the PC who thinks he is the answers to all her prayers...
November 15, 2012
An interesting premise: injured detective recuperating in his home town is drawn into a tangled web of crimes.
The characters are on the whole very engaging and the plot romps along with some nice humorous touches.
One or two characters feel two dimensional and are very stereotyped, but overall this is a good read and whilst it doesn't break any new ground, it does hold your attention.
The characters are on the whole very engaging and the plot romps along with some nice humorous touches.
One or two characters feel two dimensional and are very stereotyped, but overall this is a good read and whilst it doesn't break any new ground, it does hold your attention.
October 13, 2012
Enjoyable detective novel featuring DS Rob Trent, set on the South Coast
January 5, 2018
I really liked this. An easy read with likeable characters. A great whodunnit! Looking forward to reading more from this author.
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