A Deadly Schedule

Rating:
Summary: Hart gets better and better!
Review: After discovering Roy Hart in "A Pretty Place for A Murder"
and "Fox in the Night", both enjoyable British police procedurals, I looked for others by him and came across "A Deadly
Schedule", apparently his most recent. While the previous two were good, this one was outstanding - a real page-turner. Inspector Roper encounters a murder in Crete while on holiday and tries, with difficulty, to remain detached. Upon returning
home to Dorset, however, two more murders crop up and of course
the reader suspects a connection. Motives remain elusive, and
red herrings abound, but it all comes together nicely in the end.
Woven through the story is the inspector's growing relationship
with Sheila Carmody (whom he met in Crete) and surprisingly (!)
she lives near him in Dorset. In previous books he seemed a
confirmed bachelor, but now he seems vulnerable ... which makes
him more likeable. This is Hart at his best, I hope he has
written another since 1996 as he is getting better and better.