Snares of Guilt

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Summary: Plenty of Suspects and Suspense in this Excellent Whodunit
Review: Rukhsana Mahmood has been brutally battered to death in the woods near the nursing home where she'd been visiting her aunt. She was young, a Sikh with a Moslem husband and well liked. However there are racial tensions bubbling between her and her husbands families, racial tensions bubbling in Yorkshire as well. So when Detective Inspector John Handford is given the case he accepts it with reluctance, and to add to his reluctance and to guarantee that he remains politically correct and doesn't ruffle any feathers, he's given a young Muslim partner, Detective Sergeant Khalid Ali.

Handford finds suspects a plenty. The marriage has fired a lot of hatred between the two families, so there are beaucoup de relatives who could have done it. Then of course there's the husband. There is also the strong handyman that found the body and let's not forget the thug on steroids and it even could have been Rukhshana's former GP whose relationship with her may have not have been so professional.

Handford and Ali have to sort through all the suspects without further inciting racial tensions in this police procedural that has plenty of suspense and will make you think as read the night away, trying to figure out whodunit.

Sophie Cacique Gaul