- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services (Mar 1 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847512127
- ISBN-13: 978-1847512123
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 13.9 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 245 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,459,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Who'd break in and leave the house untouched?- When Michael and Hilda return from holiday to find two police officers awaiting them, a chaotic series of events ensues. The police have had an anonymous tip-off about child pornography being stored on Michael s computer. It's easy to prove his innocence, but who would do such a thing and why? At the same time it becomes clear that someone was living in the cottage while they were away, and may still be returning. Soon, they decide to take action of their own, with devastating consequences . . .
About the Author
John Skeltonwas an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII.Gerald Hammondis a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author ofFleeting ThingsandThe Making of the English Bible, and the editor ofSelected Poems: Richard Lovelace.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Better Hammond Books Out There, Feb 28 2010
By James N Simpson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Silent Intruder (Hardcover)
Silent Intruder starts off well. Then it just gets bogged down when the couple return home in a mundane slow unexciting plot. Also ridiculous occurrences like a police woman telling off the main female character because while playing fetch with her dog she doesn't make it wait until the ball has stopped moving as when you take the dog duck shooting you need it to wait until the corpse can't get up and run away in terror from the dog. Like everyone who has a dog goes on a duck killing spree, ridiculous assumption that wouldn't happen in the real world. Probably good advice if you are training your dog to bring back your animal victim's corpses and Hammond may well have expertise to share in this field, but doesn't make sense in the modern world where the percentage of people who partake in this sort of thing is pretty small.Basic plot is Michael and Hilda a couple who run an IT business in rural Scotland specialising in private eye type backgrounding use a meeting with a client to take a holiday trip to Europe. There Michael mistakes another woman for his wife who responds in brutal violent manner delaying their return home. Luckily this delay actually clears them from a frame up as they can prove they weren't home when pornography was loaded up onto their computer. It seems someone broke into their house and was living there for a few days while they put the frame in motion.
Hammond books do vary drastically in quality from sensational to give it a miss. This one's readable but there are way better Hammond books such as On the Warpath, The Dirty Dollar, Snatch and A Running Jump which you should try first.
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