A Detective at Death Door (Audible Audio Edition) H R F Keating Sheila Mitchell Audible Studios Books
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Whilst relaxing with her husband at the Majestic pool one hot August bank holiday, Harriet Martens does not expect the refreshing glass of Campari soda at her side to conceal a deadly drug. When she awakes from a doze she is no longer by the water, but in a hospital bed recovering from a near fatal dose of aconitine. As Harriet makes a slow recovery, she tries to come to terms with the fact that someone wanted to kill her....
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A Detective at Death Door (Audible Audio Edition) H R F Keating Sheila Mitchell Audible Studios Books Reviews
H R F Keating is a much-respected English writer, a champion for and skilled practitioner in detective fiction since the early 1960s. Most famous for his Inspector Ghote novels, he here adds another to a more recent series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens. It is Harriet Martens herself who is at death's door. She is a recovering victim of a serial poisoner who kills by slipping aconitine into his victims' drinks. Her recovery is slow and difficult but her determination to identify the killer is strong.
Keating pays generous homage to Dame Agatha Christie, who he knew personally, and attributes to her a novel she did not write, which gets its title from a line from Keats `Ode to Melancholy' - neither twist Wolfsbane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.
The particular skill that I appreciate in Keating's novels is what I call his pacing. He allows plenty of time for "warming up" before slipping into top speed. Being a detective fiction reader who tends to forget what I read in the last chapter, I find Keating's books to be more "reader-friendly" than most.
This was the fifth in the series about DCI Martens, and bloody hell, I can't wait to start reading the rest! Harriet is enjoying a drink at the pool with her husband, when he, per chance is reading a book written by the old thriller master, Agatha Christie, and he sees the same symptoms as described in the book, happening to his wife BEFORE his eyes.
What are the chances.
John is able to save his wife's life, but unfortunately she still has challenges, and is bed-bound for a while. The time in bed she uses constructively and start solving her own attempted murder.
The book was an absolute whopper of a book, and I couldn't wait to finish it to see if the killer, or killers are caught. I sincerely hope there is another book in this series!.
Honestly, I have to say I didn't like this novel very much because of the style in which it is written. However, I positively had to finish reading it to find out how in the world the author was going to manage to get his main character out of the terrible repercussions she was suffering because of being given a dose of aconite poison. The premise of having a highly ranked police investigator be the victim who survived a poisoning was such an interesting prospect I couldn't resist reading the book. The recovery process turned into a very long, difficult ordeal for Harriet and yet she continued to go against the wishes of her husband, her colleagues, and her physician by trying to solve the mystery of her own poisoning which had subsequently been followed by other victims who didn't survive. Reading about her physical and mental battles to regain her normal health in both mind and body was a wearying experience. Because of her slow recovery and setbacks I had wondered how the crime would ever be solved. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised when it wasn't solved in a satisfactory way at all.
Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens of Greater Birchester Police has spent much time investigating criminal cases, but never was she the focus of the investigation. To begin with, was she the intended victim because of her profession or not? Since being put on medical leave Harriet is not allowed to help in the investigation nor will her health allow it. As she begins to regain memory of when she drank the Campari soda by the poolside on that hot August bank holiday there are thoughts and impressions which she cannot clearly recall. Through her slow recovery she formulates theories and strategies which often prove to be impossible and unfounded. As someone accustomed to deal with fact, truths, and logic all of this is quite stressful for Harriet. It also leads to the investigators missing some valuable clues to finding the poisoner.
This was my first novel written by H. R. F. Keating so I don't know if this novel matches the style of his other works but I was surprised to find rivalry between segments of the police force to such an extent as withholding the results of a postmortem by the team sent in from London. What would have been the point of that? Also the completely implausible way Harriet found the identity of one person just didn't ring true at all. I think probably I will not be tempted to tackle another Keating novel, but this one, which seems to have been re-issued from 2004, was one that kept me reading just so I could see how the criminal was caught.
I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley.
This was a good mystery with a lot of personal perspective from "the Hard" detective
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