Vain Hope

From Publishers Weekly Following their debut in Angel Fire, acting DCI Thomas Rydell and his assistant, Sgt. Denni Caldicote, return in Christine Green's police procedural, Vain Hope. When someone bumps off Saul Ravenscroft, the leading cosmetic surgeon at the Harmony Clinic, the two investigators soon get enmeshed in a host of complications, not least the victim's having carried on an affair with the clinic's steely chief, Carla Robins. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Detective Inspector Thomas Rydell and assistant Denise Caldicote (Fire Angels) investigate the murder of a handsome plastic surgeon at an expensive clinic. The prime suspect is his lover, who believes she's being framed. A pleasant second diversion from the creator of the Kate Kinsella mysteries. For readers of British police procedurals. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.