Rant: Wendy Pepper Investigates

by Richard Fisher

Across the nation the election was on a knife-edge. In Chipping Bonhunt it was murder. A councillor has gone missing and young Chloe Gatiss makes a gruesome discovery in the old railway cutting. Has the battle over all the proposed new housing turned nasty? When a developer lies to the police and another councillor is attacked in broad daylight, Inspector Wendy Pepper has to work out who profits from this mayhem. Meanwhile, in Norfolk a terrified prisoner awaits their fate.

334 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2016

Reviews

[Lexie Conyngham · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5, really, and 4 in parts. I like the central character and her two friends, and the plot was in the end a good one, with a twist that I half-suspected but was pleased to see played out. The body count was rather high and in one case a bit unlikely. However, the politics are laid on with a trowel and explanation is not done subtly. It was interesting reading this, set at the time of the 2015 General Election, in the context of the immediate aftermath of Brexit - interesting and at times painful!