The Hero's Fall (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 14) by Phillip Strang (best classic romance novels txt) 📗

I wasn’t sure if it would break, but I reacted impulsively, saw a way out of the malaise of my life.’

‘So, you destroy a life for selfish reasons.’

‘If you led my life, you’d understand.’

‘I wouldn’t. A full confession?’

‘Prison can’t be much worse.’

‘You had Ashley Otway. That was a benefit,’ Isaac said.

‘A highlight, but what does it matter?’

Isaac could have told the man that prison would be a lot worse. He had killed a beautiful and popular television personality, the type of woman that men in prison lust after. His life would be hell. It was what he deserved.

In the corridor outside, Larry spoke. ‘I don’t remember an amateur photographer.’

‘Nor do I. Go through the footage we have, check McAlister’s house, conduct an extensive search under the bridge, look for a knife. We’ll find it. I’m sure of that.’

Two days later, Maddox Timberley left for the Caribbean. One week after Jerome Jaden resigned as his company’s chief executive officer, Tom Taylor met with Ashley Otway.

The End

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All that remained were the man’s two legs and a chair full of greasy and fetid ash. Little did DI Keith Tremayne know that it was the beginning of a journey into the murky world of paganism and its ancient rituals. And it was going to get very dangerous.

‘Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?’ Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne asked.

‘Not me. I’ve read about it. Who hasn’t?’ Sergeant Clare Yarwood answered.

‘I haven’t,’ Tremayne replied, which did not surprise his young sergeant. In the months they had been working together, she had come to realise that he was a man who had little interest in the world. When he had a cigarette in his mouth, a beer in his hand, and a murder to solve he was about the happiest she ever saw him, but even then he could hardly be regarded as one of life’s most sociable people. And as for reading? The most he managed was an occasional police report, an early-morning newspaper, turning first to the racing results on the back pages.

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Death and the Assassin’s Blade – A DI Tremayne Thriller – Book 2

It was meant to be high drama, not murder, but someone’s switched the daggers. The man’s death took place in plain view of two serving police officers.

He was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless. A summer’s night, a production of Julius Caesar amongst the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood. In the assassination scene, Caesar collapses to the ground. Brutus defends his actions; Mark Antony rebukes him.

They’re a disparate group, the amateur actors. One’s an estate agent, another an accountant. And then there is the teenage school student, the gay man, the funeral director. And what about the women? They could be involved.

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Death and the Lucky Man – A DI Tremayne Thriller – Book 3

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If it hadn’t been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn’t a pleasant sight.

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Death by a Dead Man’s Hand – A DI Tremayne Thriller – Book 5

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