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A case of burglary going wrong turns complicated in the latest Brock & Poole mystery

At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The murder victim is Clifford Gregory, the accountant husband of attractive air stewardess Sharon Gregory.

Sharon's account of the break-in that resulted in her husband's murder does not ring true, however, and when Brock and his assistant Detective Sergeant Dave Poole seek to interview Sharon a second time, they find that she has disappeared.

Brock and Poole soon find themselves caught up in a complex investigation where nothing is as it seems and the more they discover about the case, the less they really know.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Airline hostess Sharon Gregory claims that a burglar tied her up during the break-in that led to the murder of her accountant husband in Ison's smoothly written 13th procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole of London's Metropolitan Police (after 2013's Make Them Pay). Sharon's story has some obvious holes, and her blatantly promiscuous lifestyle puts Brock and Poole on to several possible accomplices. Sharon disappears as the search for indictable evidence intensifies, and then a second murder forces Brock to consider other possible scenarios. Brock's competent team carry out a lot of tedious police work, including interviews, checking and rechecking alibis, and examining some unexpected forensic evidence. Competent plotting and well-drawn characters, such as Det. Kate Ebdon, an Australian with a sharp wit and sharper tongue, make this a consistently entertaining series. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

When DCI Brock and his sergeant, Dave Poole, are called to the scene of a brutal murder, they have no idea what's in store for them. Meek accountant Clifford Gregory has been killed by an intruder, and his glamorous, flight-attendant wife, Sharon, has been left tied up and naked. Clearly shaken, Sharon can hardly tell the coppers what happened, but something about her story seems off. Brock and Poole wonder if she's quite the innocent victim she claims to be, and their suspicions seem to be confirmed when Sharon disappears a few days later. When she's found strangled in a hotel near Heathrow Airport, the two detectives know the case won't be straightforward. Their investigation takes them from some of London's seediest nightclubs to a swingers' soiree in a distant suburb and eventually exposes Sharon as a woman with dozens of sexual relationships, including salesmen, importers, and even a future earl. As usual, solid plotting, realistic descriptions of police work, and dry wit make Ison's latest an entertaining read.--Melton, Emily Copyright 2014 Booklist

Kirkus Book Review

DCI Harry Brock (Make Them Pay, 2013, etc.) investigates the murder of an accountant and the disappearance of his wife.Brock wants to make one thing clear: When the folks at Homicide and Serious Crime Command West want him, they're more likely to find him in the bed of his shapely blonde paramour, chorus dancer Gail Sutton, than in his own. So when Gavin Creasey calls Brock from the incident room at the Met, he's taken aback to find Harry in his own flat. Despite his unusual starting point, Brock finds his way to West Drayton, where Clifford Gregory lies in his bed with a massive head wound and Gregory's wife, Sharon, sits shaken and bruised in the spare room. She claims she went downstairs, naked, to confront an intruder, who immediately tied her up and killed her pixilated husband. Brock and his team, DI Kate Ebdon and DS Dave Poole, are skeptical, and forensic evidence increases their doubt. None of the scotch drenching Gregory's body is found in his stomach, and it turns out he was suffocated, not bludgeoned to death. Further probing reveals that flight attendant Sharon Gregory, bored with her husband's absorption in reconciling people's books and building model planes, has acquired a string of lovers stretching from Heathrow to Miami. So when Sharon goes missing, it's a fairly straightforward matter of interviewing one of her men after another, and pretty soon, Harry's back under the duvet snuggling with the comely Ms. Sutton.Brock's not half as smooth as he thinks he is and not nearly witty enough to get this case airborne. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.