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    A Detective Under Fire

    By H. R. F. Keating

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    The Hard Detective is called upon to root out corruption in an elite London crime squad in this British mystery novel by the author of A Detective in Love.

    Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens earned her reputation by having more grit, brains, and dogged determination than any man on the Greater Birchester police force. But when she’s called down to London to investigate accusations of bribery among the elite Maximum Crimes Squad, Harriet finds that her fight for respect—and pursuit of the truth—will be harder than ever before.
     
    Commander Charles Boxall, known as Boxer, has a reputation of his own—not to mention a major investigation into human trafficking underway. He’s not about to let some “dozy northern tart” interrupt his work over a few bad apples. But as Harriet digs beneath the squad’s tough exterior to expose a far-reaching conspiracy, she demonstrates once again why they call her the Hard Detective.
     
    A Detective Under Fire is the 3rd book in the Harriet Martens Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9781504058353
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    A Detective Under Fire
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    H. R. F. Keating

    H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he described as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.

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    • 3/5
      When allegations of corruption are made against an elite London detective squad investigating a crime of internation implications, Det. Harriet Martens is called in to investigate in the face of overwhelming opposition. Good character, competent plot.