Detective in Love

H. R. F. Keating. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-312-29143-3

Det. Supt. Harriet Martens, last seen in 2000's The Hard Detective, makes a welcome return in British veteran H.R.F. Keating's A Detective in Love. A high-profile investigation into a top tennis star's murder gets even more complicated when Harriet, hitherto a model wife and mother, falls in love with a fellow police officer.

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