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Title details for The Good Detective by H. R. F. Keating - Available

The Good Detective

by H. R. F. Keating
Frederick Davidson
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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?

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  • Release date

    September 17, 2009

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781441718822
      • File size: 162445 KB
      • Duration: 05:38:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Author H.R.F. Keating has created several very clever, entertaining and unique detectives. The Good Detective involves a murder that is more than 15 years old. When Assistant Chief Constable French's career began, methods to "encourage" confessions were different. Now French's past returns to haunt him. This case is disturbing since there is a lot of sympathy for the murderer and a questioning of police methods. Davidson excels and presents female voices in an entirely new and believable style. The book has multiple characters, yet Davidson renders each of them distinct. This audio presentation is an enhancement of the written work, which can bog down. S.G.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 4, 1995
      Keating (The Rich Detective) writes crime fiction that refuses to pander and consistently entertains as it unfolds, enigma after enigma. The title is deliberately ambiguous. Is Ned French, Assistant Chief Constable of Norchester, England, good in either a moral sense or a professional one? Early in his career, he and another cop coerced a young woman animal-rights activist into confessing to the car-bombing murders of a businessman and three children. Now that case has come back to haunt him. A man confesses to the crime before dying, casting a sinister shadow over French's career and character--one that bedding the crusading lawyer investigating the case fails to lift. Meanwhile, word comes from a stoolie that three London hoodlums named Martin (Marty), Bartholomew (Barty) and Francis (yes, Farty) are planning to hijack a drug shipment passing through Norchester. French wants to bust this present case before the media bust him for the past one. Is French a good man? Keating doesn't commit, but the question will stay with his readers.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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