Scales of Justice

Description:

A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...

subjects: Police,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Fiction,  Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character),  Murder,  Investigation,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  England, fiction,  Crime, fiction

Places: Great Britain