Review: Murder at Work

<Murder at Work by Faith Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hilary doesn't want to retire but her cover-up of Janine Mallow's murder of her husband's murderer hangs over both their heads. Supt Vane is due to move to Hull but he is bound and determined to get to the bottom of that murder and hang Janine and Hilary in the process. In Hilary's mind, it is only a matter of time so it is best for all concerned if she just fades away on her narrowboat to parts unknown.

To that end she is trying to clean up all her cases before retirement day. Her top boss, Donleavy doesn't want her to go so he tells her immediate boss, Danvers, himself soon to be reassigned to Yorkshire, to hand a new murder case to Hilary and her team. Her team now consisting of Gemma, soon to marry into a title and therefore also going to be reassigned, and a new DI,Mark Chang, a true eager beaver. Not happy that she is now trying to solve a convoluted case in too short time, she is even more distressed when she finds, Frank Ross, whom she forced into retirement a major player at the crime scene.

All ends well, in the knick of time and at the end, Hilary, home from Gemma's wedding and having delivered Puff the Tragic Wagon to a local teenager, heads the Mollern north in the canal to a new life.

Hopefully, she packed that A4 folder Donleavy handed her earlier in the week. Maybe she'll get bored out there on those quiet lazy canals.

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