DC Johns Meets his Match
An extract from the memoirs of Detective Inspector Peter Johns
Mystery & Suspense, Traditional British, Cozy Mysteries, Fiction & Literature, Religious
| Author: | Judy Ford | ISBN: | 1230000641289 |
| Publisher: | Bernie Fazakerley Publications | Publication: | September 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Judy Ford |
| ISBN: | 1230000641289 |
| Publisher: | Bernie Fazakerley Publications |
| Publication: | September 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
When newly-qualified nurse, Susan Parry, is found dead in her bed in the nurses’ home, her colleagues call the police to investigate and Detective Constable Peter Johns finds himself involved in a murder enquiry for the first time in his career. It is not just his career, however, which is dramatically affected by the events that follow.
As he gets to know the other inmates of the home, he finds himself becoming personally involved in the life of one nurse in particular, and this helps to bring home to him the reality of racial prejudice in nineteen-seventies Oxford. Faced with both an apparently intractable murder mystery and the derision and antipathy of some of his colleagues, Peter fells increasingly embattled.
Who could have wanted Nurse Parry dead? How did the murderer escape from a locked room? And who will Peter take with him to the Police Ball?
When newly-qualified nurse, Susan Parry, is found dead in her bed in the nurses’ home, her colleagues call the police to investigate and Detective Constable Peter Johns finds himself involved in a murder enquiry for the first time in his career. It is not just his career, however, which is dramatically affected by the events that follow.
As he gets to know the other inmates of the home, he finds himself becoming personally involved in the life of one nurse in particular, and this helps to bring home to him the reality of racial prejudice in nineteen-seventies Oxford. Faced with both an apparently intractable murder mystery and the derision and antipathy of some of his colleagues, Peter fells increasingly embattled.
Who could have wanted Nurse Parry dead? How did the murderer escape from a locked room? And who will Peter take with him to the Police Ball?
