A Deadly Schedule

This book, as well as all the other Inspector Roper mysteries, was excellent! I have read all of Roy Hart's mysteries and, needing another "fix" from this author, even read his espionage novel, "A Position of Trust". He has spoiled me for other authors. I keep hoping for more publications from him.

After discovering Roy Hart in "A Pretty Place for A Murder"and "Fox in the Night", both enjoyable British police procedurals, I looked for others by him and came across "A DeadlySchedule", apparently his most recent. While the previous two were good, this one was outstanding - a real page-turner. Inspector Roper encounters a murder in Crete while on holiday and tries, with difficulty, to remain detached. Upon returninghome to Dorset, however, two more murders crop up and of coursethe reader suspects a connection. Motives remain elusive, andred herrings abound, but it all comes together nicely in the end.Woven through the story is the inspector's growing relationshipwith Sheila Carmody (whom he met in Crete) and surprisingly (!)she lives near him in Dorset. In previous books he seemed aconfirmed bachelor, but now he seems vulnerable ... which makeshim more likeable. This is Hart at his best, I hope he haswritten another since 1996 as he is getting better and better.