Tangled Web UK Review July 2002
Snares of Guilt by
Lesley Horton
pbk out June 02
(Orion)
at £9.99
Bradford health visitor Rukhsana Mahmood is found battered to death close to
a nursing home where she visits her aunt. Rukhsana was well-liked and the
local police are baffled. Detective Inspector John Handford, still smarting
from the fallout of a botched investigation which alienated the Asian
community, is assigned the case. Asian detective DS Khalid Ali is brought
in to assist Handford and faces hostility from within the force and from the
Asian community. The two policemen struggle to establish an effective
working relationship as they investigate the murder. Rukhsana was Sikh, her
husband Amajit Muslim and his family shed no tears at her death, had they a
hand in it? Rukhsana was respected at work but Handford unearths rumours
that suggest she was involved with another man. Did she betray Amajit and
did he find out and take revenge - or arrange for his family to do so?
Amajit's unexpected friendship with one of Rukhsana's patients, a young
single mother called Karen, fuels the fire of resentment and rage from both
their families and fresh violence simmers ready to explode.
Lesley Horton brings an authentic, contemporary flavour to a classic police
detective story and writes with honesty and insight. An excellent first
novel.
Manchester Evening News 6.7.02
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
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