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The Body Politic (Inspector Sloan #13)

Catherine Aird

Start date: December 15, 2025

Finish date: January 6, 2025

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Jun 09, 2015 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Alan Ottershaw is a mining engineer working in Lasserta, a small Middle Eastern country which has deposits of a particular ore needed for a secret weapon of great importance to the British government. Relationships with Lasserta are tricky and when Alan knocks down and kills someone in a road accident it looks like becoming an international incident and threatens the mining interests of his employer. Alan is sent home to Calleshire and no one is more relieved than he is.

When the re-enactment of ...more

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Nov 12, 2025 Jan C rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, 2025, england

3 1/2 rounded up to 4.

I felt like I was missing some information. For one thing, there was a reenactment of a battle but I wasn't sure if it was a real battle or not. And, if it was, what war was it from? References to Harold Hadratta and Cromwell and his Roundheads. They weren't from the same wars, were they? And there was a geographical reference which was beyond me. But I still wouldn't have guessed the killer.

A few red herrings.

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