Status Updates From Gently With Love (Inspector...

I was a policeman, but I was shorn of my powers: I couldn’t take a policeman’s grip on the problem. I couldn’t interrogate. I could ask questions but I couldn’t apply pressure. I couldn’t commandeer evidence and I couldn’t isolate my suspects. I couldn’t build up that psychological tension in which events develop and clarify, I was a paper tiger.

‘That’s just certain. But he was a chiel who had no friends at all in Kylie.’ ‘Then a man whom he had deeply offended.’
Iain considered the point leisurely. ‘From what I hear tell there were plenty of those. The laddie had more illwishers than a herring has bones.’

I'm reading this for Mystery & Thriller Week...

Lying Cat: 'Lying...'

OK, I was reading it anyway...

Hunter's completely abandoned his usual pacing structure on this one...

George tells a tale from several years ago, beginning with an invitation to a friend's wedding...