The Good Detective

About the Author H.R.F. KEATING has written numerous novels as well as plays and non-fiction but he is perhaps most famous for the Inspector Ghote series set in India, the first of which, The Perfect Murder, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and was made into a film by Merchant Ivory. H.R.F. Keating was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. He has served as Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Society of Authors, and in 1987 was elected President of the Detection Club. He is married to the actress Sheila Mitchell and lives in London. Product Description A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Constable Ned French's career. Heather Jonas, forced into a false confession to murder after a harrowing late-night interview session with French, has now served fifteen years of her twenty-year sentence. In all that time she's never appealed against her lot; but now the situation has changed. Someone else has confessed, and there s a citizen's rights campaigner on Heather's case who is determined to get to the truth. Then, French gets a tip-off which could lead to the biggest coup of his working life. He is reliably informed that the notorious Corrigan cousins are masterminding a huge shipment of cocaine into Britain, and he knows where it's going to land. Will he be able to pull off the arrest, or will the events from his past overwhelm him before he has the chance? And is he, or is he not, a good detective? Review Davidson excels. . . This audio presentation is an enhancement of the written work. . . --AudioFile[A] moving, powerful, melancholy story about one detective's fierce efforts to do his job well--and the high costs of his obsessive ambition. . . . Deeply affecting and superbly written, this is an outstanding police procedural and a moving human drama. --BooklistKeating writes crime fiction that refuses to pander and consistently entertains as it unfolds, enigma after enigma. --Publishers Weekly