FICTION
Released: Aug. 18, 2009
""Why, oh why, is it hard so often to decide what to do?" laments Ghote once he's in possession of the facts. Despite Protima's complaints, his indecision stems only from a delicacy that was evidently in full flower during his very first case."
Eight years after bringing down the curtain on the storied career of Bombay's Inspector Ghote (
Breaking and Entering, 2001, etc.), Keating raises it once more for a prequel.
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FICTION
Released: June 10, 2008
"Harriet is muffled by frustration and grief for her son (One Man and His Bomb, 2006, etc.), and the detective work is a bit of a slog. The capture of the murderer, however, winds up Keating's usual suave handling of interrogations with a bang."
Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens's plan to resign from the Greater Birchester Police is put on hold when she witnesses a murder.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2006
"The mystery is solved by a series of convenient, and conveniently delayed, recollections. It's a testament to this series that the death of the heroine's son produces a reaction that's stronger but no more heartfelt than usual."
The Hard Detective's cases (
A Detective at Death's Door, 2005, etc.) always try her strength, but this one may be the hardest yet.
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FICTION
Released: May 16, 2005
"Middling for this quirky series, less penetrating than A Detective in Love (2002) but more resourceful and substantial than A Detective Under Fire (2004)."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2005
"As thin a mystery as Keating has ever set, without the complexity of morals and motives that marks his best work."
The new chief constable of Greater Birchester Police gives Det. Supt. Harriet Martens (
A Detective Under Fire, 2004, etc.) two weeks to solve a 30-year-old murder.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 11, 2004
"Readers will certainly feel for dogged Harriet, though the punchline, as so often in Keating's civilized entertainments, might better have suited a short story."
When a pesky London newspaper threatens to expose major corruption at the highest levels of the London force, the call goes out to the Hard Detective from the Midlands to investigate.
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