
This is the third and final novel in the trilogy - 'The Jacks'. The year is 1969, man has landed on the Moon and taken his first lunar footsteps. As the world watches on television, a Monkston man takes advantage of the night's events to commit a crime that will baffle the Monkston Jacks. DS Steve Miller is the first to visit the scene of the safe blowing at a local solicitor's office and immediately suspects that it is the work of a professional 'peterman' - a safecracker, and he has a good idea who he is. But the man hads a cast iron alibi. Miller knows that whoever did the job must have had help from someone on the inside. His dilemma is that he can't be sure who the insider is. As his enquiries progress,, the finger of suspicion passes from one employee to another and back again, but it has to be one of them. As the investigation develops, it attracts the interest of the Chief Constable of the newly formed North-West Constabulary and he exerts pressure on the head of CID, ACC Harry Jackson, the former Chief Constable of Monkston. But Jackson is soon to be put under even more pressure, when a woman reads in the local paper of his involvement in the investigation and sets out on a campaign to discredit him. When a body is found murdered in the area close to the safe-blowing, Steve Miller wonders if this is the connection tothe safe-blowing that he has been looking for. As you will have come to expect from the previous two novels in the series, nothing is ever as it seems and the trilogy concludes with more twists and turns. However, you can expect for most situations to be resolved, but perhaps not all of them. There might yet be more to come.
Page Count:
444
Publication Date:
2021-02-17
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!