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Constable Country

Catherine Aird

Publisher: Allison & Busby

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Summary

When Mike Wakefield's business partner absconds with their printing firm's money, Detective Inspector Sloan is tasked with what appears to be a cut-and-dry case of embezzlement. However, unsettling events - tyres slashed, bricks through windows - make it clear that someone is really gunning for Mike.
There is just one print job to put to bed in time for a lavish launch party at Ornum House. All goes according to plan until one of Mike's employees is found dead . And he wasn't the only casualty. DI Sloan and DC Crosby have

a tangled set of motives and some devious chicanery to unpick to discover a killer.
Available since: 06/22/2023.
Print length: 320 pages.

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