Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has spent some time recovering
from a shooting incident. He is still after the man who shot him in the
leg and escaped. It appears that the French police have caught him, so
he sends DI Glenn Branson to bring him back, providing the French will
extradite him.
Shortly after that he gets a call from the United States asking for
information on a woman, who may be mixed up in a Russian mafia killing.
She may have stolen thousands of dollars from a courier. The American
police are very interested in her, and she has given a Brighton address
as her home. One point of interest about the woman is that both her
husband and recent fiancé died under unusual circumstances. It also
appears that the woman has disappeared upon returning to the UK.
Now back at work, Grace finds an
unusual suspicious death case on his plate. A petty criminal has been
killed by a snake. How could this have happened? He puts together his
investigative team. He is surprised when a bit later an older man from
Brighton dies on a cruise ship after it had docked at Mumbai. The thing
is, he died from the same snake venom the petty criminal had. What are
the odds of that? More information that comes in points to a young
woman who has married a few times, after which the husband shortly dies.
Does the team have a black widow on their hands?
Author Peter James' murder mystery is full of action and surprises. It was a very good read.
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