[sufue]

The Dreaming Detective is the fourth title in HRF Keating's lesser known Harriet Martens series, from which the first, second, third and fifth have fairly recently been either free or Countdown deals. This one is now a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about six more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Dete.../dp/B010BM00EM

Spoiler:

‘Who killed the Preacher?’

Harriet Martens is startled. This is her first face-to-face meeting with the new, fanatically determined, Chief Constable of the Greater Birchester Police, and he greets her with the question immediately.

Why is he setting out to antagonize her?

He is talking about the famous Boy Preacher, the charismatic youth who was strangled in the empty ballroom of the city’s Imperial Hotel in 1969.

And he is giving Harriet the mystery to solve because he wants her out.

The case has been unsolvable for over 30 years and now she is tasked with making use of the latest DNA techniques to narrow down the list of suspects; Harriet's inevitable failure to solve it now will take care of her…

But Harriet has more than earned her title of The Hard Detective. She is determined to turn the tables on the chief, so determined that the case takes over her dreams.

With a list of seven different suspects, will Harriet be able to use her already proven skills to work out who had the motive to kill the wildly popular young figure before it is too late, all the while trying to save her reputation and job from the efforts of the media and the new Chief Constable?

‘The Dreaming Detective’ is a gripping crime thriller from master of the genre H. R. F. Keating.