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Mortal Taste (Lambert and Hook Book 16) Kindle Edition

by J.M. Gregson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
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Head teacher Peter Logan is a strange case of Jekyll and Hyde. He's effected impressive improvements at his Cheltenham school, but his private life is in no way exemplary. So when he's shot in the head one September evening, does he die a martyr or is this his just comeuppance? It’s up to Lambert and Hook to find out the truth.
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    Lambert and Hook Mysteries
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    Severn House
  6. Publication date
    July 15, 2012
  7. File size
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Peter Logan is headmaster of Greenwood Comprehensive, one of Cheltenham's top schools, and by all accounts, he does an outstanding job. The parents, staff, and pupils admire him, and Greenwood has won kudos for its forward-looking methods and philosophy. But Logan is not quite the gifted headmaster his public image portrays. When he's found stabbed to death in a local park, it soon becomes clear that he had some dark secrets. Chief Superintendent John Lambert and his trusty sidekick, Detective Sergeant Hook, are assigned to the case, which Lambert is determined to solve quickly, because he is due to retire in a few months. But a tangle of suspects and motives complicate matters, with drugs, sex, blackmail, potential pedophilia, and vengeful ex-lovers all figuring into the case. Recommend this solid entry in an entertaining series to fans of such A-list British procedural authors as Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill. Emily Melton
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Gregson is a Lancastrian by birth, and taught for 27 years in schools, colleges and universities.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008JX2MMO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House (July 15, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 645 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings

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R. K. Dillon
4.0 out of 5 stars Hooked on Lambert & Hook
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2012
This is a series I like - good writing, strong character development, fairly believable plot lines. This particular one wasn't the best but was still satisfying.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2022
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I love reading this book. But I don't understand why it cost three times more than the other ones that I have purchased. The story line was fantastic as always. I am happy that one of my favorite characters is not leaving.
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John Cowan
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent read
Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2017
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In the past few months I have read half a dozen Lambert and Hook books, each of them excellent. The story is interesting and credible; the characters are well drawn. And one thing I like - is the author's love of the countryside. I am soon going to run out of L & H books unfortunately, but not yet...
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Damaskcat
5.0 out of 5 stars Mortal Taste
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2016
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Head teacher, Peter Logan is shot dead one evening at point blank range. Naturally the police look at his close family first for suspects though the modus operandi seems more like a contract killing. His image is of a successful man with a stable life but as Lambert and Hook delve deeper the realise that there are some murky depths behind his squeaky clean image and his family life is far from perfect.

Threatened with forced retirement, can Lambert solve this puzzling case or will the last investigation of his career remain unsolved? The plot of this story is well done and it did keep me guessing for quite some time. There were plenty of likely suspects with motive means and opportunity but trying to choose between them was difficult.

I enjoyed this well written crime story with its likeable police characters with just enough of their personal lives included to provide a background to their investigations. How on earth is John Lambert going to resign himself to retirement when his life blood is the hunt for murderers? Or can the inevitable be postponed by the special pleading of his Chief Constable?
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Mr. A.J. PENDLEBURY
4.0 out of 5 stars Not much here for the immortals to taste.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2017
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There is a pleasing symmetry about the team of Lambert and Hook. Enough personal details to give shape to the narrative but not so much as to distort the underlying crime novel . The synopsis tells enough ...just !

The portrayals of the educational side of things is ( not surprisingly) really well done . I am not as convinced by the somewhat sanitised nature of the sixth formers drug issues . The golf course naturally has to make an appearance with some wry descriptions of the trials of the amateur golfer.

Although the retirement issue looms large , I didn't find it a very convincing part of the book ...others will probably disagree. In addition the somewhat rushed ending with so many major crimes sorted so easily really was not very realistic. Overall though,a most readable crime novel with good locations and a sense of drive and purpose. These books really can be read in any order.
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v fairhurst
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2016
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good
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Cindy Allsopp
4.0 out of 5 stars I like these books- plots and detectives are very well written ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2015
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I like these books- plots and detectives are very well written and has good interaction between the characters.
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