Interleaved Lives

by Roderick Hart

Douglas Hunter works as a police detective till he attempts to locate his missing wife by abusing privileged access to police databases. Forced to resign, he takes on clients. His first, Alison Ogilvie, has deep suspicions of her husband, which prove to be correct when he turns up dead with a plastic bag over his head.

The two are pursued by Hunter’s ex-boss, DS Maureen MacNeil, who didn’t like him before and likes him even less now that he has gone private. In their attempts to discover what has happened to their respective partners, and to defend themselves from the abrasive DS MacNeil, they form an unlikely but effective partnership.

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2020

About the author

I have made bubble gum in Pennsylvania, studied folk music in Afghanistan, published poetry in anthologies of Scottish verse, and worked for many years in a recording studio training students in scripting, recording, editing, and studio operations. An active member of a BPD support group (Borderline Personality Disorder) I have learned the hard way the strain this condition puts not only on the person with the disorder, but on relatives and friends as well. I have two children and live with my wife in the grounds of an old convent on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The mugshot was taken beside Lake Ontario when I wasn't looking.

Reviews

[Susan Ayres · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took a while to get into the book. There seemed to be a lot of characters to get to know. Bit of stereotyping of policemen living alone in a shabby flat in edinburgh. He lost his job for mis- using police resources to trace his wife who walked out one day with their dog. In addition to a lot of characters there are a lot of sub plots going on. I found it a bit tiresome at first, but I persevered and got to like the characters and the way all the sub plots came together and were resolved. Ending leaves the way open for a series of books about this crime busting team. I would certainly read any further books in the series.