Two suicides. One deadly connection.
Following disciplinary action, PC Sarah Gladstone, a happily married mother of two, is reluctantly enrolled onto Mavenwood’s fast-track detective training program.
As she begins her investigative training, her tutor, DS Dales, a long-serving British detective with the emotional scars to prove it, warns her about the insidious nature of detective work. He’s concerned that Sarah’s career will leave her as it’s left him – bitter and with a string of broken marriages.
When a woman is found dead in a luxurious hotel room, Sarah attends what at first appears to be a routine suicide. As the case turns into a murder investigation, she begins to uncover a disturbing pattern of sinister connections and unlikely suspects that leads her a little too close to home.
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I liked this one a lot better than the first Death’s Privilege is the second book in the Sarah Gladstone series but can be read as a stand alone book. I liked this one a lot better than the first. It’s well written, steadily paced and had enough going on to make me want to keep reading. There are parts that you might take for meandering but will later give you an “ah ha” moment. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, there’s another twist…even at the end. Good read.
Death’s Privilege Great book, I finished it in one sitting. The characters were well defined, likeable, or not. There was not one misspelled word, improper punctuation, or mistake that I could find (my pet peeve). One of the main characters was from Donaghue’s book, A journal of Sin, a fledgling English police officer.Â
Way too complex – even the author got confused British police detective (in training) Sarah Gladstone is charged with investigating an apparent suicide, one of 2 occurring within a few days of each other. Of course neither were suicides. We are then introduced to a number of suspicious characters, which would have been fine had there been some clarification of motive. Somehow, Sarah’s husband and a co-worker were also added to the mix, leading to a great deal of angst and not too much detecting.Â