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RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Sara Sheridan (Constable £8.99)
by Sara Sheridan (Constable £8.99)
A woman is stabbed to death. The obvious suspect is her husband, who was beside her in bed when she died.
But first reactions are not to be trusted.
Not, at least, by Mirabelle Bevan, a private detective in post-war Brighton, whose experience in the Secret Service has prepared her for coping with the seamier side of South Coast nightlife.
As she delves into the lives of those close to the victim, she encounters a succession of threatening characters, from a Russian countess with a taste for high-stakes gambling who employs murderous thugs to do her bidding, to ladies who ply the oldest profession in the grand hotels.
With sharp blows delivered for gender and racial equality, Sheridan’s story builds to a chilling climax.
MAIGRET AND THE OLD PEOPLE by Georges Simenon (Penguin £7.99)
MAIGRET AND THE OLD PEOPLE
by Georges Simenon (Penguin £7.99)
Maigret is out of his depth. Or so he feels as he gets to grips with the violent death of a retired diplomat. The victim, with aristocratic lineage and society friends, is an unlikely candidate for gun crime.
Then the chief inspector finds a cache of letters revealing a longstanding but unconsummated affair between the dead man and a recently widowed princess. But this insight into the private lives of the upper class reveals no motive.
A tight-lipped housekeeper attracts suspicion, but what reason can she have for taking against her benevolent employer?
Georges Simenon knows no limits to his flights of imagination.
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