No Fixed Abode

by Frances Ferguson

A weekend break in the Kent countryside for Detective-Sergeant Jane Perry and her new boyfriend, Adrian, is disrupted when a nearby disused aircraft hangar goes up in flames. Once the inferno has died down, the charred remains of a well-known local vagrant, Old Mary, are revealed. The death is written off as an accident but Jane's instincts tell her that something has been overlooked. She delves deeper and soon stumbles upon another corpse. Further investigation throws up traces of blackmail, illegal drug dealing and theft and no one seems free from suspicion - not even Adrian...

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Run of the mill police-murder mystery story.

Jane Perry is a detective in a British market town investigating the death of a vagrant woman at an abandoned aircraft hanger where a rave took place.

The denouement occurs principally through the cheap expedient of a confession. The strictly licit soap opera like life of Ms Perry adds little to the tired plot.