Malice in the Highlands (Erskine Powell Mysteries)
by Graham Thomas
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Author: Graham ThomasEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01-28
ISBN: 0804116571
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Fawcett
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Book Review: Grand debut, thought provoking atmospheric mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
New Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Erskine Powell spends more time covering his superiors' butts than solving crimes. Every year he goes on a Highland vacation where he engages in a friendly fishing competition with the local constable, Chief inspector Alex Barret. This year Pinky Warburton join the law enforcement duo on their fishing expedition. On the first day of Erskine's vacation, the body of the new owner of Castle Glyn is found in the river. It appears at first that the victim's death was accidental, but the subsequent autopsy reveals a murder has been committed. The deceased was an internationally renowned Canadian with numerous enemies. When Pinky almost becomes the next victim, Erskine has a personal stake in uncovering the identity of the killer.
MALICE IN THE HIGHLANDS, the first episode in what appears to be an ongoing series, stimulates the reader's cranial electrodes with its seemingly unsolvable puzzle. Talented Graham Thomas brings the Scottish Highlands to colorful life and has created an endearing hero. Readers will definitely want to read more stories starring this special, one of a kind sleuth. Fans of the British police procedural will enjoy this 1990's Hercule Poirot.
Harriet Klausner
Summary of Malice in the Highlands (Erskine Powell Mysteries)
INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARDCrime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London.
Now, seeking distance from the criminal constituency--and the bureaucratic drudgery of the Yard--Powell embarks on a salmon-fishing competition in the Scottish Highlands. There, in the castle-dotted countryside along the picturesque River Spey, he seeks peace and seclusion. But a cold-blooded murderer soon turns Powell's haven into a busman's holiday--and a quiet anglers' paradise becomes just as deadly as the mean streets of London.
The hoary idea of the urban detective who finds himself hip deep in murder while on holiday in an exotic locale is given fresh new life by Graham Thomas in his first mystery about New Scotland Yard Murder Squad's detective chief superintendent Erskine Powell. Powell is an original and very interesting copper, and the site he chooses for his abortive vacation--the salmon fisherman's paradise of Cairngorm Water, along Scotland's River Spey, "stained dark with peat and lashed to a yeasty foam, looking like brown ale"--is so beautifully described that you can smell it. Even when it turns out that there are more human bodies than salmon floating in the water, Thomas manages to keep Powell from snagging his line.
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