Circle of Danger
by Roderic Jeffries
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Pub Date 12 Sep 2016 | Archive Date 23 Sep 2016
Description
A body has washed up at Fortrow Docks…
This is now the third drowning within three months and individually they are deemed accidents by the coroner.
But looking at them as a whole, Detective Inspector Fusil cannot shake the feeling that there is more to the deaths.
Detective Constable Kerr leads the investigation which places him in the middle of what was previously a well concealed drug ring.
Following leads, he is ordered to get close to Jane Waynet in an attempt to gather more information.
Is she involved in the crimes? An innocent caught in the middle?
Their relationship soon blossoms into something more, but he can’t help wondering if this an attempt to distract him from the case?
Her hesitance to answer any questions should be a warning. But Kerr is seemingly blinded by his feelings.
Believing that she is being forced into loyalty to the drug lord, Kerr refuses to break the courtship off.
Despite orders from his superiors to back off.
Lost in a sea of emotions, Kerr pushes forward with a new determination to catch the criminals.
But can he catch them without endangering Jane?
Circle of Danger is a gripping crime novel, full of suspense that will keep you guessing right until the end.
Praise for Roderic Jeffries
'A first-rate whodunit turning on the resourcefulness of a country gentleman who exploits the process of the law to delay its action. Author on the top of his legal and social form.' - Francis Goff, Sunday Telegraph
‘Tension builds up and there are two exciting court scenes. Roderic Jeffries established a very high reputation for himself in the field of the legal thriller with Exhibit No. Thirteen and Dead Against the Lawyers. Once again he has used a little known quirk of the law, and woven round it an enthralling story of immense intricacy.’ - Maurice Richardson, Observer
‘The resulting legal intricacies make fascinating reading.' - Hester Makeig, Spectator
'First-class, smoothly told, fine court scenes and sketches of lawyers entirely absorbing.' - John Clarke, Evening Standard
‘The most ingenious of Mr. Jeffries's exercises in legal trickery.' - Julian Symons, Sunday Times
'Good court scenes; very competent.' - Peter Dickinson, Punch
'...is for the mystery story connoisseur and particularly the man who can appreciate this ingenious exercise in legal trickery.' - Police World
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the Department of Navigation, University of Southampton. In 1943, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and sailed to Australia and New Zealand, but later transferred to the Union Castle Company in order to visit a different part of the world. He returned to England in 1949 where he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn and read for the Bar at the same time as he began to write. He was called to the Bar in 1953, and after one year's pupilage practiced law for a few terms during which time there to write full time. His first book, a sea story for juveniles, was published in 1950.
This is now the third drowning within three months and individually they are deemed accidents by the coroner.
But looking at them as a whole, Detective Inspector Fusil cannot shake the feeling that there is more to the deaths.
Detective Constable Kerr leads the investigation which places him in the middle of what was previously a well concealed drug ring.
Following leads, he is ordered to get close to Jane Waynet in an attempt to gather more information.
Is she involved in the crimes? An innocent caught in the middle?
Their relationship soon blossoms into something more, but he can’t help wondering if this an attempt to distract him from the case?
Her hesitance to answer any questions should be a warning. But Kerr is seemingly blinded by his feelings.
Believing that she is being forced into loyalty to the drug lord, Kerr refuses to break the courtship off.
Despite orders from his superiors to back off.
Lost in a sea of emotions, Kerr pushes forward with a new determination to catch the criminals.
But can he catch them without endangering Jane?
Circle of Danger is a gripping crime novel, full of suspense that will keep you guessing right until the end.
Praise for Roderic Jeffries
'A first-rate whodunit turning on the resourcefulness of a country gentleman who exploits the process of the law to delay its action. Author on the top of his legal and social form.' - Francis Goff, Sunday Telegraph
‘Tension builds up and there are two exciting court scenes. Roderic Jeffries established a very high reputation for himself in the field of the legal thriller with Exhibit No. Thirteen and Dead Against the Lawyers. Once again he has used a little known quirk of the law, and woven round it an enthralling story of immense intricacy.’ - Maurice Richardson, Observer
‘The resulting legal intricacies make fascinating reading.' - Hester Makeig, Spectator
'First-class, smoothly told, fine court scenes and sketches of lawyers entirely absorbing.' - John Clarke, Evening Standard
‘The most ingenious of Mr. Jeffries's exercises in legal trickery.' - Julian Symons, Sunday Times
'Good court scenes; very competent.' - Peter Dickinson, Punch
'...is for the mystery story connoisseur and particularly the man who can appreciate this ingenious exercise in legal trickery.' - Police World
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the Department of Navigation, University of Southampton. In 1943, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and sailed to Australia and New Zealand, but later transferred to the Union Castle Company in order to visit a different part of the world. He returned to England in 1949 where he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn and read for the Bar at the same time as he began to write. He was called to the Bar in 1953, and after one year's pupilage practiced law for a few terms during which time there to write full time. His first book, a sea story for juveniles, was published in 1950.
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