A Serpent in Paradise by Mark HaydenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
After Operation Jigsaw ends Tom Morton is sent to a gated community in Cheshire called 7Bridge, home to celebrity footballers, a real-life princess and other millionaires. A complaint has been lodged against local police for harassment and tensions are escalating, Tom has been brought in to resolve matters quickly, but before he can even start he and his new partner, DC Elaine Fraser, are called to the scene of the murder of one of the residents, playboy Gianni White.
The local police have a strong suspect, a young footballer whose fiance was having an affair with the victim, heck the two even had a vicious fight only moments before Gianni was deliberately drowned and even the fiance thinks he did it. But Elaine arrested the guy in the ambulance on the way to hospital and she's convinced he didn't do it. Oh, and there's a gossip blog spewing spite and dirty secrets about the residents of 7Bridge, could that be behind the murder?
I was worried that after the fantastic end to the Operation Jigsaw series any spin-off with Tom Morton would be a damp squib, especially when Conrad Clarke has already become a star in his own right, but this murder in a Footballer's Wives community which is 50% indulgence and 50% prison camp was bang on the money. There's politics, gossip, double-dealing, blended family feuds, bribery, and romance for Tom!!
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