Dangerous In Love

Nov 17, 2024 4:37 PM

Author:Leslie Thomas

Dangerous In Love

A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in the greasy spoon, a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas - Dangerous Davies knows how to treat the woman he loves.

Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn-singing social worker, and 'Lofty' Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty's death was no accident, our hero sets out to do some undercover detective work. He soon discovers that something sinister is going on. Something that requires intuition, dedication, brilliant deduction - and a timely blow with a blunt instrument.

Reviews

Any book by Nevil Shute is a delight

—— Punch

That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly

—— H.E. Bates

There is a quality of golden light that hangs over his books. That comes, I think, from his sense of order and from his own vast, undemonstrative solicitude

—— John Ezard , Guardian

A terrific debut

—— Daily Telegraph

Brilliantly chilling

—— heat

Confirms her at the summit of the school of writers specialising in forensic medicine and terror

—— The Times

A great read ... crime fiction at its finest

—— Michael Connelly

A superior, deeply satisfying thriller

—— Evening Standard

A fast-paced and unsettling story ... A compelling and fluid read

—— The Daily Telegraph

The writing is lean and mean, and the climax will blow you away

—— The Independent

Compelling

—— Daily Mirror

There is no doubt that Crime is a page-turner

—— New Statesman

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