Every other Saturday, August to May, Sarah Stephenson sees her husband, George, off to Hexham station to get a train to Newcastle for the match at St James’ Park. Except he doesn’t attend the game, he listens to the radio commentary while in bed with a lady he knows only as Jenny.
Sarah knows nothing of this arrangement, but there again George knows nothing of her own simultaneous fortnightly routine that involves an intimate visit from neighbour and shopkeeper, Tony Raine.
The cosy, mutually oblivious arrangement ends when after a particularly energetic afternoon with Jenny, George returns home to find the police outside his house with the news that his wife is dead, believed murdered,
On the case is DI Elspeth Sanderson, newly transferred to the area and still getting to grips with her new team. Step by step they gather evidence, strip away false alibis, uncover motives, and inevitably crack the case, despite distractions that involve Elspeth’s rivalry with a local DI and a long distance on/off relationship with a policeman in the Gambia where her previous case took her.
The plot holds together with enough twists and turns to maintain interest, and the characters are well drawn and distinctive. An enjoyable introduction to the DI Sanderson series of novels
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