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Missing Letters: Featuring Inspector Walter Darriteau
It’s a warm summer Friday evening, and the bookkeeper, Pamela Grayson, stays late. She works for a struggling business and her boss needs updated figures for the accountant and bank manager. Pam’s eager to oblige, the only one left in the office.
Figures massaged and bullied into looking decent, she places them on the boss’s desk and leaves, heading for her Chester apartment thirty minutes away.
During the drive, she doesn’t consider cop cars and bikes and radar traps, but thinks of her estranged boyfriend, and what he might be doing over the weekend.
She shakes her head to remove the images and tries to switch off. Breaking the speed limit is not unusual for Pam, and that evening, she is lucky.
Once home, she relaxes, sighs, slips off her work shoes, and considers fixing a drink.
She has no idea she is not alone in the flat.
So begins “Missing Letters”, the sixteenth case in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series.
Walter is going to be busy, but not on police work, for he has left the country, accompanying his friend Marina Moo to Hong Kong. She is divorcing and needs a confidant to help her through.
“Missing Letters”, a chunky book running to 450 pages, the new Walter Darriteau story for 2025, available to order now.
Figures massaged and bullied into looking decent, she places them on the boss’s desk and leaves, heading for her Chester apartment thirty minutes away.
During the drive, she doesn’t consider cop cars and bikes and radar traps, but thinks of her estranged boyfriend, and what he might be doing over the weekend.
She shakes her head to remove the images and tries to switch off. Breaking the speed limit is not unusual for Pam, and that evening, she is lucky.
Once home, she relaxes, sighs, slips off her work shoes, and considers fixing a drink.
She has no idea she is not alone in the flat.
So begins “Missing Letters”, the sixteenth case in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series.
Walter is going to be busy, but not on police work, for he has left the country, accompanying his friend Marina Moo to Hong Kong. She is divorcing and needs a confidant to help her through.
“Missing Letters”, a chunky book running to 450 pages, the new Walter Darriteau story for 2025, available to order now.
490 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2025
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About the author
David Carter
37 books15 followersI have been writing for longer than I care to remember, both fiction and non fiction, and started out by writing business articles and columns.
The reason I write is because I enjoy it. It is as simple as that. If other people happen to enjoy the results then that is a huge buzz, and a great encouragement to write some more!!
At the moment I am concentrating on my Chester based detective, Inspector Walter Darriteau, (see The Murder Diaries and The Sound of Sirens) and my philandering man, Gringo Greene - (see The Life and Loves of Gringo Greene) though the truth is that, like many other writers, I always have several projects under way at any one time.
Thank you for visiting my page and I hope you like at least some of my stuff.
Have fun,
David C.
The reason I write is because I enjoy it. It is as simple as that. If other people happen to enjoy the results then that is a huge buzz, and a great encouragement to write some more!!
At the moment I am concentrating on my Chester based detective, Inspector Walter Darriteau, (see The Murder Diaries and The Sound of Sirens) and my philandering man, Gringo Greene - (see The Life and Loves of Gringo Greene) though the truth is that, like many other writers, I always have several projects under way at any one time.
Thank you for visiting my page and I hope you like at least some of my stuff.
Have fun,
David C.
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July 19, 2025
A three stranded thrill ride
This is an amazing book, beginning with three very different and seemingly unconnected stories. I advise you to read each carefully and set aside any feelings of annoyance,. A wee thread is left dangling for the next book - maybe... The amount of research involved is quite astonishing, as are the many colourful characters. And yes, it does all come together quite delightfully. Nice to see something different in the genre
This is an amazing book, beginning with three very different and seemingly unconnected stories. I advise you to read each carefully and set aside any feelings of annoyance,. A wee thread is left dangling for the next book - maybe... The amount of research involved is quite astonishing, as are the many colourful characters. And yes, it does all come together quite delightfully. Nice to see something different in the genre
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