The body of a girl is found buried on a small island in the Thames.  This is a Q Division police procedural.  It is necessary to determine who she is, and in so doing a great many things are uncovered including bent policemen, crooked garage owners, suspicious solicitors, dirty old men, and local roundheels.

The body of a girl

michael-gilbert

Harper&Row

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Blood and Judgement

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

HarperCollins (paper)

Death Has Deep Roots

This is a detective and trial story with a complicated plot that will grip the reader. Victoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of her supposed lover, whom she is accused of having stabbed. There are only five suspects including Lamartine. But evidence that doesn’t fit the police theory of the crime has been ignored, whilst all of the damming evidence is presented in isolation. Intriguingly, whilst the murder was committed in England, all of the suspects somehow have a past connection with France and its wartime underground. However, there now appears to be links to gold smuggling and it is not immediately clear how all of the different pieces of evidence fit together. As always, Gilbert neatly takes the reader to a satisfying final twist and conclusion.

Thrillers & Suspense

Perennial Library

"Once you start to follow Mr. Wetherall, headmaster of a London high school, in his one-man war on crime and the black-market, you will find it hard to leave him until victory is his."--SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN

Fear to Tread

Detective Chief Inspector Mercer is called to the scene when a skeleton of a girl is found on Westlaugh Island in the upper reaches of the River Thames. What appears to be a straightforward and routine investigation, however, leads to unexpected events and a string of unlikely characters, including a lawyer and a one armed garage proprietor. Nothing seems to fit together and it seems the sleepy town holds many secrets. The finale involves two nights of dramatic violence and it isn’t until this stage is reached that the twisted truth finally emerges.

The Body of a Girl

Flash Point

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Penguin

Hugo Greest is the tiger. He now has a TV adventure series in which he has knocked out 91 beautiful girls and 91 villains. The 92nd comes unexpectedly when he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that His Highness Sheik bin Rashid bin Abdullah al Ferini, in the middle of a small war, needs a new military advisor and he wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent …

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