Alison Bruce

Cambridge Blue

Detective: Gary Goodhew
Time         Current
Setting      Cambridge UK
Genre        British Police Procedural

This is the first of the Gary Goodhew novels. Goodhew is a a young and gifted Detective Constable with a yen for extending an investigation on his own bat. Marks, his exasperated DI, is perhaps a little too generous in tolerating his methods.

The book opens with a murder in self defence which is apparently unconnected to the murder which eventually triggers Goodhew's investigation. The strands in the plot come together intriguingly and that to some extent compensates for some of the implausibility of Geoodhew's characterisation.

Rating A

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