Journey to the Crown: The Career of DCI Sarah Rudd from 2003 – 2008 - Softcover

Drury, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910040126 ISBN 13: 9781910040126

Publisher: City Fiction, 2017

Synopsis

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Rudd is one of the bravest police officers ever to patrol the streets of the Home Counties. Her later career is told initially in the books ‘Megan’s Game’ and ‘The Deal’. In ‘Cholesterol’ she is involved in a shooting in The Mall and saves the lives of the Royal Couple for which she is awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Gallantry. In ‘A Flash of Lightning’ she prevents the bombing of four hundred travellers in a London bound commuter train from a Jihadist attack. In ‘The Lady Who Turned’, published in 2014, DCI Sarah Rudd not only rescues her daughter Susie from a deranged kidnapper, but becomes a private investigator and fights off an East European gangster’s attempt to take control of ‘The Lady’ magazine.Sarah Rudd’s early career is told in two books:On Scene and Dealing - The Early Career of DCI Sarah Rudd The title of the book is a message of arrival made by a police officer to Control when reaching an incident. Published in 2015, it is Part One (of two) telling Sarah Rudd’s story from 1997, when she joins the Hertfordshire Constabulary as a probationary constable, to May 2003, when she becomes a detective. The ten separate stories each tell of various incidents in her early career as she matures into a respected police officer alongside her husband Nick, a schoolteacher, and Marcus, their son.Journey to the Crown - The Career of DCI Sarah Rudd from 2003 - 2008 ‘The Crown’ is a reference to the metal or embroidered insignia on a superintendent’s epaulette. This is Part Two of Sarah Rudd’s early career. It comprises eight stories charting her progress, initially from 2003 to 2005, when she passes her sergeant’s examinations. In 2007 she becomes a sergeant and dedicates herself to gaining promotion to inspector and beyond in order to achieve the coveted crown. In 2008, the wheels fall off as she begins a destructive love affair.

About this edition

• Publisher: City Fiction
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910040126
• ISBN 13: 9781910040126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194