The Lazarus Widow Author:Bill Knox, Martin Edwards A dead woman's body surfaces in the Clyde, off Glasgow's Docklands, which unfortunately, is not an unusual occurrence. But when a second body surfaces in the same place, the laconic Colin Thane of the Scottish Crime Squad finds himself personally involved: the second corpse is criminal Sam Baker, who had consented to aid Thane in destroy... more »ing a major international fraud operation.
As Thane and his colleague Sergeant Sandra Craig talk to Baker's widow Muriel -- and learn about his wife-battering proclivities -- the duo are snared by the The Lazarus Widow, an extortionist of terrifying ruthlessness. It seems the late Baker was acting as a middleman and got in the way. But how did he; and who is behind the Lazarus Widow? As the Thane-Craig duo head towards the remote Ayrshire coast for a final grisly encounter, crime readers are assured of a climax as powerful as anything in earlier Knox thrillers.
It is a daunting task finishing the final novel of the late crime novelist Bill Knox, but Martin Edwards has triumphantly completed the 25th Detective Sergeant Thane novel, The Lazarus Widow.« less