Ridiculed and nicknamed 'Agatha' by her colleagues for her Marplelike approach to a crime scene, novice detective Pippa Adams could not be having a worse start to her career at Penbury CID. Then teacher Carl Brock is discovered stabbed to death in a country lane on a hot June morning and his wife is found chained to a chair at their home. Pippa's superiors are getting nowhere with the case, stalled by false leads and growing ever more frustrated. As she takes it upon herself to uncover the truth, Pippa is led into a sinister world of drugs and cold revenge...
- ISBN10 0709091060
- ISBN13 9780709091066
- Publish Date 31 August 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English