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JONATHAN ROSS
"Jonathan Ross is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for the brilliant procedural detail he brings to his novels. Thirty years a policeman, he retired as a Detective Chief Superintendent. Mr. Ross lives in Wiltshire, England. He is also the author of A Rattling of Old Bones and Death's Head." From: Diminished By Death, Bantam Books, October, 1984
With so many other GOOD books out there, you might want to put these way down on your list. I'll admit I only made it through a few pages of Diminished By Death before I had to put it down, but with writing like,
"She was certain of her ability to contain the passions of the youths she drew to herself with the tartish promise of schoolgirl lubricity.",
how could I go on? It would prove to be "Murder By The Book" were I to continue.
One by Johathan Ross:
 Diminished
By Death
(1968) The warm July night hugged the lake like a black shroud when the young chap took his girlfriend out in one of Mr. Bodger's boats-for-hire.The problem was he never brought her back. Only later did Bodger find the bloody knife in the bottom of the boat and call the police. But what Detective Superintendent George Rogers needed to go with the weapon was a body. Unfortunately, the one he finally discovered wasn't stabbed ... and now two murders on a midsummer's night would lead him to a missing wife, a scar-faced lover, and a case where marriage was simply murder. |
