Subject: Richard Cullis is attacked one night on his way home from a bar. A man with a knife threatens his life if he doesn't promise to cease animal testing in the labs where he is the director of research. He is given two weeks to get results if he wants to live.
A Lambert and Hook Mystery - When Richard Cullis's life is threatened if he doesn't cease animal testing at the labs where he is the director of research and he then collapses during a company golf tournament, murder is suspected, but who administered the poison? There are plenty of suspects, and DS Hook is called in to sift the truth from the lies.
Originally published: Sutton: Severn House, 2008.
Richard Cullis is attacked one night on his way home from a bar. A man with a knife threatens his life if he doesn't promise to cease animal testing in the labs where he is the director of research. He is given two weeks to get results if he wants to live.
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Library Journal Review
There is a mole in the ranks of Gloucester Chemicals, and an animal rights group threatens a top executive if the company does not release its animals. Worse, that same executive rapes one of the company's female scientists. When the man is poisoned at a company golf tournament, there are unsurprisingly a number of suspects confronting detectives Hook and Lambert. Inspector Peach series author Gregson has a style that can be likened to that of Peter Turnbull and Claire Curzon. For collections where British procedurals circulate. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Richard Cullis, Director of R&D at Gloucester Chemicals, is a serial womanizer with the morals of an alley cat. When he keels over at a company dinner, and the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned with the deadly drug ricin, detectives Lambert and Hook have no shortage of suspects. Nearly everyone who worked for Cullis bore a grudge against the man, and while ricin is extremely hard to come by, every scientist working in the R&D Department had access to it. Among the many suspects: the researcher Cullis raped, the scorned woman with whom he had a torrid affair, the animal-rights sympathizer who's working undercover in the lab, the man Cullis recently fired, and the woman he passed over for promotion. This fine police procedural extends the excellent reputation Gregson has established with his highly entertaining Lambert and Hook series.--Melton, Emily Copyright 2008 Booklist
Kirkus Book Review
A company golf outing turns nasty when the director of research and development ends dinner by keeling over dead. Richard Cullis is not the most popular department head at Gloucester Chemicals. Jason Dimmock detests him for his affair with Jason's wife Lucy. Deborah Young resents him for getting the promotion she deserved. Her husband Paul is angry because, after luring him out of research into an ill-fitting sales position, Cullis gave Paul the sack. Ben Paddon, a covert member of All God's Creatures, despises Cullis for testing products on animals. Priscilla Godwin has abhorred Cullis ever since their date ended with his brutal refusal to accept the fact that her "No" really meant "No." And his wife echoes his employees' loathing, though she doesn't even work for Gloucester Chemicals. So why do all his detractors agree to join him in a company golf tournament, even when most of them agreealthough they can't remember the attribution (Wilde? Twain?)that the game is nothing but a good walk spoiled? It's up to Chief Supt. John Lambert and Sgt. Bert Hook (Close Call, 2006, etc.) to find out, since someone hated Cullis enough to slip a dose of deadly poison into his dessert. All the interest is in seeing Lambert and Hook turn the suspects against one another in this routine procedural, which ends with one of the shortest putts on record. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
TextSeries: Gregson, J. M. Lambert and Hook ; 21.A Lambert and Hook mysteryPublication details: Sutton : Severn House Large Print, 2010.Description: 336 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: