Death of an Innocent (Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries Book 8)

'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library Journal A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his living room, and who on earth are the victims? Charlie Woodend isn't amused with the people who are getting under his feet as he starts to grapple with these questions, but his steps are abruptly halted when the Deputy Chief Constable decides that, this time, Woodend's high-handedness has gone too far. Woodend may have been suspended but his sense of justice can't let go. And it won't let go however much resistance he encounters and from whom. But as Woodend is depressed to discover, when the people who are determined to keep you down are all-powerful, sheer will-power just isn't enough. 'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library Journal

A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his living room, and who on earth are the victims? Charlie Woodend isn't amused with the people who are getting under his feet as he starts to grapple with these questions, but his steps are abruptly halted when the Deputy Chief Constable decides that, this time, Woodend's high-handedness has gone too far.

Woodend may have been suspended but his sense of justice can't let go. And it won't let go however much resistance he encounters and from whom. But as Woodend is depressed to discover, when the people who are determined to keep you down are all-powerful, sheer will-power just isn't enough. "The only way Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend (The Red Herring, p. 710, etc.) can solve a case, as he used to remind his old bagman, Bob Rutter, is by cloggin it: walking over the crime scene to get the feel of it. Which doesn't mean he appreciates other people tramping all over his crime scene. So when his new bagman, Sergeant Monika Paniatowski, drives him to Wilf Dugdale's farm to view the bodies of a middle-aged man and a young woman shot dead in the front parlor." A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer and who on earth are the victims? These are the questions Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend must seek the answers to.