Women Detectives - Fiction, Police Stories

Dead Letters

Name: Dead Letters
Author: Gerald Hammond
ISBN: 9780749083274

by Gerald Hammond

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Overview

Honoria Potterton-Phipps is a dog lover. She is also the heiress to a vast fortune, but when her father threatened to cut her off unless she went to university, she took Criminology and never looked back. Now she finds herself embroiled in the close community of Newton Lauder, which is far from the idyllic rural village it seems and the only thing more worrying than the condition of her new Labrador, is the body hunched in a rowing boat, riddled with bullet wounds . . .

Solving a murder is hard enough when your superiors don't take you seriously because you're a woman, none of the locals will speak to an outsider and there are two men in your life, but it's even harder with an ex guide dog to retrain and another to nurse through pregnancy. For D.S. Potterton-Phipps, however, it may just be that her dog has a few leads of its own . . .

Synopsis

For Detective Sergeant Honoria Potterton-Phipps, party-girl turned policewoman, solving a murder may be easy if she follows the lead of her beloved dog . . .

About the Author, Gerald Hammond

Gerald Hammond is a retired architect and the creator of 'John Cunningham', dog breeder in Scotland and of 'Keith Calder', gunsmith. He also writes under the pseudonyms 'Arthur Douglas' and 'Dalby Holden'. His previous works include Dead Letters, Saving Grace, and Down the Garden Path. He lives in Scotland with his family.