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The third in the Revd Detective Inspector Blake Hartley series.
In this novel, the priest-policeman, ably assisted by his Muslim
sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, foil a militant extremist sect gun-running
and murdering on Blake Hartley’s patch in a Yorkshire moorland
mill-town. Colonel Mordecai Waheeb of the Cairo Police arrives
undercover to help them bring the terrorists to book. The exciting
climax of the novel takes place in an underground temple in Egypt
in the House of the Dead. click here |
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Called out to Investigate a murder, Blake Hartley finds himself
locked into a drug-smuggling ring. The master-mind behind it
is the nephew of the The unravelling of the crime is also the unravelling of the
past. The Revd. D.I.Blake His sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, a Huslim, is also a deeply religious
man. Born in West Yorkshire like his inspector, both share a
love for the North Country and its people. Both also share a
deep respect for each other's religion. The action of this novel,
like the other Blake Hartley mysteries, is set In the beautiful
Yorkshire Dales and wild Pennine Country. click here |
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When Sir Edward Marcham, an international banker and business man, is found dead in a sleazy part of Keighworth, his sordid past is exposed. Inspector Blake Hartley and his sergeant Ibrahim Khan uncover a pornography ring and much else, including ex-KBG agents running a weapons scam and bank fraud. All the usual ingredients are here with the Revd D.I. Hartley, the policeman priest, having to cope with his ambitious, class-bound boss, Superintendent Arthur Donaldson and some subtle religious interplay with his Muslim sergeant. The action of this novel, like the others in this series,
is set in the Yorkshire Dales and wild Pennine countryside. The
thrilling climax takes place in Gordale Scar, the awesome rift
at the head of Airedale. click here |
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When one of his churchwardens rushes back into the vestry after a Sunday morning service and tells Blake Hartley there’s a body in the graveyard, the Revd. Detective Inspector thinks he’s having his leg pulled. However, the look on the churchwarden’s face soon tells him otherwise and the body on the grave is that of an Asian hit-man. The discovery leads Blake Hartley and his sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, into the world of mafia money laundering and drug smuggling, church robberies, wife abuse – all in the parish of Ingerworth in Yorkshire. But the subsequent investigations take them further afield and eventually to Arizona and an exciting climax at the lip of the Grand Canyon. Collaborating with an American detective, Lieutenant Phil Carlsen, they clean up an international laundering gang and solve one or two local mysteries besides. Set in the wild Pennine country like the other Blake Hartley novels, The Graveyard Mystery peels back the plaster from more than one contemporary politically correct façade.
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When an old friend and parishioner of the Revd Inspector Blake Hartley is found dead in his allotment at Ingerworth, the inspector is shocked and angry. He makes it his mission to find the old man’s killer and in so doing uncovers a biological weapons factory, which is also being used to make illegal drugs that are distributed worldwide. The trail leads him to Australia where, with the help of Detective Inspector Lee Chang of the Adelaide Police, he tracks down the leader of the narcotics network. It is in Adelaide Port and the shark-ridden sea beyond it that the thrilling climax of the novel takes place. Set in the Pennine country of Yorkshire and Adelaide, the novel, like all the Blake Hartley mysteries, looks at the current state of play in politics and the wider social scene.
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