Brothers' Tears (Chief Inspector Peach Mystery 17)

Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful businessman Jim O'Connor is shot dead, point blank range, in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up an investigation that has got nowhere. It seems Jim O'Connor had some rather unpleasant business contacts, many with the motive to get rid of him. However, when law-abiding Dominic O'Connor is also killed, within days of his brother, Brunton CID can only assume there must be some link between the two murders, so should they really be looking closer to home for the culprit . . .? Review Another solid outing for Gregson and the indomitable Peach Kirkus Reviews on Brothers' Tears About the Author Gregson is a Lancastrian by birth, and taught for 27 years in schools, colleges and universities. A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in "a formidable puzzle" for the "indomitable" British detective ( Kirkus Reviews ). Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O'Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up the high-profile investigation. It doesn't take long before he has a surfeit of suspects on close watch#8212;from the victim's cheating wife to an avenging crime lord to the head of a local prostitution ring to an assassin for the Provisional IRA. Considering Jim's dicey past, and shadier associations, each suspect has a clear motive. But the case takes a sharp detour when Jim's upstanding and much-loved brother Dominic is murdered next. To piece together this deadly puzzle, Peach looks a little closer to home, where the most dangerous impulses may run foul in the O'Connor family blood. "This series [is] a winner." #8212; Booklist Ex-Ireland rugby player, and now successful businessman, Jim O'Connor is shot dead, point blank range, in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach returns from holiday to head up an investigation that has got nowhere. It seems Jim O'Connor had some rather unpleasant business contacts, many with the motive to get rid of him. However, when law abiding Dominic O'Connor is also killed, within days of his brother, Brunton CID can only assume there must be some link between the two murders, so should they really be looking closer to home for the culprit?--From dust jacket flap.