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The Red Herring

#8 in series

by Sally Spencer
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The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend. But it is to be an investigation he is soon ordered to abandon when Helen Dunn, the daughter of Wing Commander Dunn - and a pupil at the school where the dead woman taught - suddenly vanishes into thin air. While Woodend and Rutter race against time in the desperate hope of finding the girl alive, Woodend's bagman, Monika Paniatowski, continues to work on the murder, under the supervision of the mysterious Chief Inspector Horrocks, a Scotland Yard man who seems to have only a mild interest in finding the killer. Are the two cases connected? Woodend begins to wonder. And if they are, who is it who seems to be blocking both investigations at every turn?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Inspector Woodend

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 22, 2012

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9781448300846

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      • ISBN: 9781448300846
      • File size: 440 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 1, 2002
      As the Cuban Missile Crisis heads to a climax, the English town of Highbridge is rocked by a murder and then a school girl's kidnapping. Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend, Detective Sergeant Monica Paniatowski, and Detective Inspector Bob Rutter investigate the crimes, only to find that their boss and new colleagues from Scotland Yard are blocking the investigation. This latest Woodend and Rutter mystery offers a fast, unsettling pace, strong dialogue, and dark humor. Spencer reaches into Woodend's past to show how a painful case influenced his unorthodox detecting methods, and she fills out her newest character, DS Paniatowski. Along with the sure sense of police procedure are vivid descriptions of life during the missile crisis and the atmosphere at an exclusive school, along with a le Carre-like sense of the folly of espionage. Spencer broadens her appeal here from procedural fans to devotees of military and spy thrillers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2002, American Library Association.)

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