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Police detective Richard Jury is drawn back into London’s gritty streets when an old friend enlists him to investigate the murder of a wealthy bachelor. Jury wrestles with conflicting accounts of the victim’s past, the inscrutable lead detective—beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar—and misleading clues surrounding the former club owner, Billy Maples. As the case deepens, the trail leads from the trendy Clerkenwell galleries and clubs to the serene Sussex town of Rye, where Maples once rented Lamb House—a home associated with Henry James’ famed novels—now holding its own secrets. With fellow Scotland Yard officer Melrose Plant on the scene and Aguilar’s interference, Jury must use his intelligence and quiet charm to untangle the truth before the case spirals out of control.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Martha Grimes
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