Deceptive Relations

Chris Martin #4

by Annette Roome

Witty and fresh new Chris Martin mystery from the award-winning Annette Roome.Two suspicious deaths in twenty-four hours in Home Counties Tipping spell trouble for reporter Chris Martin when she is sent to cover a possible suicide, and the battered body of Janet Cox – probably the town’s first road-rage killing.Chris, currently smugly congratulating herself on having sorted out her private life, finds herself unravelling the threads of Janet Cox’s convoluted affairs, which leads to the disturbing conclusion that Janet’s missing husband is either a prime suspect, or himself a corpse.Trying to make sense of Janet Cox’s life and death, as well as reporting on the row blowing up over Tipping’s millennium plan, means Chris has to face up to some uncomfortable truths in her own life, not to mention a terrifying brush with the town’s underworld.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 4, 1999

About the author

Winner of the 1989 New Blood Dagger Award for A Real Shot in the Arm .

Reviews

[Mrs Susan J Bociek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crazy who dunnit

Chris is a reporter with the local paper. With no formal training she has worked her way up and usually spends her days investigating daily, trivial news items. So when there is a murder, and the victim is someone she briefly met - this seems like an exciting assignment. But the facts don't add up, there are liars a-plenty and Chris ends up going round in circles, trying to make the pieces of the jigsaw fit. Entertaining and frantic.