Book description
The new TV Detective mystery by BBC Correspondent Simon Hall... The TV
Detective finds television reporter Dan Groves newly assigned to the
crime beat, and in a state of angst about it. He needs a crash-course in
police work; the solution is to shadow Detective Chief Inspector Adam
Breen on a high-profile murder inquiry, which doesn t go down well with
some members of the police force. The victim is a notorious local
businessman, Edward Bray, a man with so many enemies that one of the
problems the inquiry faces is having a surplus of suspects. Bray is
killed at a prearranged meeting, in a lay-by on a dark and storm-lashed
night, by a blast through the heart from a shotgun. Adam investigates
and uncovers a tantalising question, which seems to be at the heart of
the case: why was the killing planned for a different day, but put off
apparently because the weather was sunny? Tensions abound between Dan
and the police, and he comes close to being thrown off the case - until
the detectives come to realise he might actually be helpful, in using
the power of television to tempt the murderer into a trap... The new
TV Detective mystery by BBC Correspondent Simon Hall... The TV Detective
finds television reporter Dan Groves newly assigned to the crime beat,
and in a state of angst about it. He needs a crash-course in police
work; the solution is to shadow Detective Chief Inspector Adam Breen on
a high-profile murder inquiry, which doesn t go down well with some
members of the police force. The victim is a notorious local
businessman, Edward Bray, a man with so many enemies that one of the
problems the inquiry faces is having a surplus of suspects. Bray is
killed at a prearranged meeting, in a lay-by on a dark and storm-lashed
night, by a blast through the heart from a shotgun. Adam investigates
and uncovers a tantalising question, which seems to be at the heart of
the case: why was the killing planned for a different day, but put off
apparently because the weather was sunny? Tensions abound between Dan
and the police, and he comes close to being thrown off the case - until
the detectives come to realise he might actually be helpful, in using
the power of television to tempt the murderer into a trap...
