Janet Neel — новинки

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1988, Janet Neel's Death's Bright Angel took the traditional English detective story and placed it in a realistic, often cut-throat, setting of modern business and government intervention. In doing so, she created an endearing pair of investigators - high-flying Department of Trade civil servant Francesca Wilson and CID Inspector John McLeish - whose relationship and romance was to flourish over the course of seven novels. Janet Neel qualified as a solicitor after taking a law degree at Cambridge. She moved into industrial relations with the Department of Trade and Industry and has been a director of several public companies, including the London Stock Exchange. From 1994 to 1999 she was a governor of the BBC and in 2000 received a life peerage. She sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Cohen of Pimlico and is an active organiser of the Parliament Choir. She lives in Cambridge and is the current Chairman of the Arts Theatre.

Throughout her career in Her Majesty's Civil Service, Francesca Wilson has shown herself to be cool, assured, and supremely competent. It is something of a surprise, therefore, when Francesca - married now to Police Superintendent John McLeish and on maternity leave with their young son - seems to be going to pieces. Of course, the baby does cry all the time, and Francesca never seems to get out anymore.... Help arrives in the form of a nanny and an offer of part-time work as the Bursar of London's distinguished all-women's Gladstone College. Combining motherhood and career seems to be the perfect solution for Francesca - until the trouble begins at Gladstone: Two students are molested, a prominent professor is stabbed, and the school is torn apart by the debate over whether to admit men. As Francesca draws ever closer to the dangerous passions behind the serene academic facade, award-winning mystery writer Janet Neel brings us her most stylish and suspenseful novel to date.

A missing-person case turns into a homicide, and Detective Chief Inspector John Mac Leish of New Scotland Yard is propelled into the world of London's high-powered politics. The young woman in question was the fiancee of a Treasury Minister, and the list of suspects grows by leaps and bounds. Martin's.