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DCI Roper #12
Lessons In Logic
Newly-divorced Julie Watson has everything going for her - a successful new career, her own flat, fast car and good looks. The only cloud on her horizon is a series of anonymous phone calls she has recently been receiving. And then Julie is found knifed to death. This changes DCI Roper's investigation from chasing a harmless nuisance caller to a murder enquiry. And then other women begin to ring the station with reports of obscene calls. Now all the women are terrified - and with reason - but do they all share some common link? And then another murder is committed, seemingly right under the nose of the police and Roper is left wondering with whom he is dealing. A charming psychopath who can seduce the women away from police protection? Or someone with a reputation so safe and solid that none of the women can perceive him as a threat? Roper and his team must find the answers soon, before more bloody deaths occur.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Janie Bolitho
34 books37 followersAka Jodie Sinclair.
Born in Falmouth, Cornwall, Janie Bolitho enjoyed a variety of careers - psychiatric nurse, debt collector, working for a tour operator, a book-maker's clerk - before becoming a full time writer. She died of breast cancer in 2002.
Born in Falmouth, Cornwall, Janie Bolitho enjoyed a variety of careers - psychiatric nurse, debt collector, working for a tour operator, a book-maker's clerk - before becoming a full time writer. She died of breast cancer in 2002.
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February 4, 2024
Julie Watson has a successful business as a commercial kitchen designer and is justly pleased with her last commission. She has however been unnerved by some anonymous telephone calls which she had reported to the police. DCI Roper realises that he has a nuisance caller on his patch in Rickenham Green, when he receives reports of similar type calls from several other women.
However, the focus of the investigation shifts dramatically when Julie Watson is found stabbed in the kitchen of the restaurant she has just completed. As PC Brenda Gibbons interviews the other women requesting lists of all their friends and acquaintance’s seeking a link between them, one clear fact emerges, that they are all attractive women with long dark hair and around the same age. Clearly these are not random calls. However, the occupations of the girls are all very different. Maggie Telford is a dentist, Janice King is a hairdresser, and Helen Potter runs a sandwich bar with her sister. Pamela Richards and Cassandra McQuire belong to the same gym bit none of the others.
As the police cross check the list provided by the girls there seems no one name that springs out, but logically there must be a link.
I was caught up in the mystery. A good whodunit with a surprising ending
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
However, the focus of the investigation shifts dramatically when Julie Watson is found stabbed in the kitchen of the restaurant she has just completed. As PC Brenda Gibbons interviews the other women requesting lists of all their friends and acquaintance’s seeking a link between them, one clear fact emerges, that they are all attractive women with long dark hair and around the same age. Clearly these are not random calls. However, the occupations of the girls are all very different. Maggie Telford is a dentist, Janice King is a hairdresser, and Helen Potter runs a sandwich bar with her sister. Pamela Richards and Cassandra McQuire belong to the same gym bit none of the others.
As the police cross check the list provided by the girls there seems no one name that springs out, but logically there must be a link.
I was caught up in the mystery. A good whodunit with a surprising ending
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
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