Honour Among Men: An Inspector Green Mystery (An Inspector Green Mystery, 5)

Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel While investigating a drowning, Inspector Green uncovers a decade-old military secret someone is desperate to keep hidden. Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier hold the key?

Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier hold the key?

The fifth book in the Inspector Green series finds Green eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing after doing administrative work in the office. He gets his chance when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. The investigation leads Green to Nova Scotia, where he learns the woman was the witness to her fiance's killing in a bar fight 10 years earlier. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, one of his female detectives is brutally beaten and may die. Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit, but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. Inspector Green investigates the death of an unidentified military woman found in the Ottawa River