Reviews for On Dangerous Ground

The average rating for On Dangerous Ground based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-28 00:00:00 Melissa Cornell Lesley Horton's writing makes police work fascinating, even though it is often sheer plodding and working through the exercise of examining possibilities. Two teenagers have been murdered within days of each other, the girl a suspected prostitute and in the dead boys possessions is a strip of photographs of the two of them laughing and smiling together. When one of their own becomes a suspect DI Handford is given the task of researching DCI Stephen Russell's (his superior) background which causes Handford a lot of embarrassment and worry. How can he do this without letting anyone else know? What if it turns out that the DCI is completely innocent and finds out the Handford has been delving into his past? It could put an end to his chances of promotion in the future. Another difficult situation is that a local Pakistani businessman and owner of a major leisure centre is suspected of being a pimp and luring young girls into prostitution but he is a close friend of Sargeant Ali who is warned to avoid all contact with him. Not only that but their whole families are also good friends. Is this becoming an ugly racist conflict? Many false leads are followed up until eventually the whole ugly mess is worked out and the guilty are brought to justice. This was excellent writing with nothing to interrupt the flow of the plot. There are hints of who might be guilty but it isn't until the end that everything comes to a head.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-07 00:00:00 Norma F. Aronson The second in a series of which I've not read the first, which might have been what contributed to the slightly teetering nature of the solving of this crime. In the end. all my misgivings proved premature but I wasn't entirely convinced.