Overview

""We are living in the departure lounge,"" said Ralph Greenwood, ""and flights leave with monotonous regularity."" So when another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening in December, no-one is very surprised-not until the results of a routine post-mortem reveal something extraordinary. Police Sergeant DC Smith and his team have to tread carefully as they investigate what took place, and Smith himself has to confront some difficult memories. Others, meanwhile, seem intent on getting him to leave the force altogether, while, despite his best efforts, his social life also becomes a little more complicated. To top it all, Kings Lake has been waiting weeks for the snow to fall, in a winter that seems as if it will never end . . .

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""The gruff and uncompromising Smith is a copper in the spirit of George Gently and John Rebus--that is, complicated and not cartoonish."" --Publisher's Weekly ""The books are comforting, the writing is subtle and the plots are gripping.""--The Times of London ""What sets Grainger's books apart from the typical police procedural is the fully realized characters...That and his elegant prose, with its pitch-perfect dialogue, which gets more assured and more playful in each.""--Financial Times

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Peter Grainger is the ""creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you've probably never heard of"" (Financial Times magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 novels. He lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson, and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.

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