Night Fall: 10 (A Neil Paget Mystery, 10) - Hardcover

Smith, Frank

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9780727882714: Night Fall: 10 (A Neil Paget Mystery, 10)

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ISBN 10: 0727882716 ISBN 13: 9780727882714

Publisher: Severn House, 2013

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The discovery of the body of local photographer Billy Travis leads Detective Inspector Neil Paget into one of the most frustrating cases of his career. The dead man had fallen fifty feet from a bridge onto the railway tracks below. The fact that the corpse is bound and gagged, the letter A carved into his forehead means that the death plunge was no accident.

Travis having led a quiet, unremarkable life, the motive for the murder remains a mystery. With no physical evidence, no witnesses and no leads to follow, the investigation stonewalls - much to the frustration of Paget's new boss, Detective Superintendent Amanda Pierce, who has much to prove in her new role.

When a second body shows up, Paget must discover what connects the two victims if he is to have any chance of cracking the case.

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Review:

"Paget and his team are all characters we enjoy hanging around with, and readers who are meeting them for the first team here will want to grab the earlier books in the series"--Booklist

"A terrific series for readers of British police procedurals" on A Killing Resurrected--Library Journal

"The complicated back story takes Paget's 10th a step beyond a routine procedural"--Kirkus Reviews

"Smith keeps readers interested and in doubt all the way to the revelation of the surprising culprits" on A Killing Resurrected--Publishers Weekly

"Paget and Pierce achieve a functioning d�tente in this smoothly plotted, well-written procedural"--Publishers Weekly

"The backdrop may be familiar, but as procedurals go, this one is nicely done" on In the Shadow of Evil--Booklist

About the Author:

Frank Smith was born in Canada and went to England at the age of six. At the age of 16 he went to work in Bletchley Park, the wartime station where enemy communications were being decoded with the aid of the famous Enigma machine. He began writing in the 1960s. The theme of the first five books, beginning with CORPSE IN HANDCUFFS, was espionage in the Cold War years, but when that came to an end he moved on to police procedurals featuring DCI Neil Paget and DS John Tregalles.

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