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Genre - Mystery
Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is happy in her personal life – she’s in love with colleague, Mark Turner, & they’ve bought their dream home together. If only Mark’s daughter could accept their relationship. Her professional life is more of a problem. Her new boss is a man she once mentored, and his attitude to work – and Fran - has changed for the worse. She’s covering for an ill colleague, is reviewing a potentially unsafe conviction before the case comes to court, & trying to investigate a straightforward suicide which she has a hunch may not be so simple. Her desire to keep working on the investigative side of her job is thwarted by the new boss’ love of constant meetings & committees. Her relationship with Mark takes a potential turn for the worse when his selfish daughter leaves her husband & wants to move back home. I enjoy this series very much. Fran is a middle-aged woman trying to juggle work & family, caught in the trap at work of being promoted away from the parts of the job she loves. There’s plenty of police procedural here as well as the personal lives of the main characters, and the potential for the series to develop in new ways as Fran takes on a new job at the end of the book.
---- Reviewed by Lyn, Headquarters
Genre - Mystery
Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is happy in her personal life – she’s in love with colleague, Mark Turner, & they’ve bought their dream home together. If only Mark’s daughter could accept their relationship. Her professional life is more of a problem. Her new boss is a man she once mentored, and his attitude to work – and Fran - has changed for the worse. She’s covering for an ill colleague, is reviewing a potentially unsafe conviction before the case comes to court, & trying to investigate a straightforward suicide which she has a hunch may not be so simple. Her desire to keep working on the investigative side of her job is thwarted by the new boss’ love of constant meetings & committees. Her relationship with Mark takes a potential turn for the worse when his selfish daughter leaves her husband & wants to move back home. I enjoy this series very much. Fran is a middle-aged woman trying to juggle work & family, caught in the trap at work of being promoted away from the parts of the job she loves. There’s plenty of police procedural here as well as the personal lives of the main characters, and the potential for the series to develop in new ways as Fran takes on a new job at the end of the book.
---- Reviewed by Lyn, Headquarters
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