Never Apologise, Never Explain

Agatha Mills has been beaten to death from a blow to the head in her own kitchen.  Inspector John Carlyle immediately suspects it is her husband, however, he claims to have been asleep at the time.  He says it could only have been her enemies, in fact the Chilean secret police.

Carlyle also is concerned about the abduction of a little boy by his drug pushing father.  He is unsure if the lad is still even alive.  He is then asked by a woman news reader to check into a man that is stalking her.

His interest in the murder case is waning, so he charges the husband with the murder.  However, moments after doing that, his sergeant, Joe Szyszkowski comes in with documents that show that the husband could well be telling the truth.  The victim's brother disappeared during the military coup in 1973, and she had been pestering the Chileans since.  The husband commits suicide before he can be tried.  Case solved, or is it?

Sometime later the news reader is found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs.  The police are unsure as to what happened. 

Carlyle begins to find evidence of rogue Chilean army personnel operating in Iraq.  The deaths of two young people could well be tied in to the death of the original murder victim.  A young woman comes forward to Carlyle with information on a man who is working in the Chilean embassy.  It isn't long before she is dead, too.

Author James Craig presents a twisted and volatile murder mystery full of international intrigue within the city of London.  There were times that I was reading, that I wondered what the relevance of what had been written had to the story.  However, all-in-all a good read.