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Limestone Cowboy: A DI Charlie Priest Mystery (Detective Inspector Charlie Priest Mystery)
 
 

Limestone Cowboy: A DI Charlie Priest Mystery (Detective Inspector Charlie Priest Mystery) [Kindle Edition]

Stuart Pawson
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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The sun is shining in Heckley, and DI Charlie Priest is wise-cracking his way through the daily routine. Work is, if not quite relaxed, at least stress-free. The biggest case on the books? A petty thief pinching underwear from the washing-lines of unsuspecting housewives. Charlie's pretty confident he can handle it
 
But all good things come to an end and it's not long before the clouds roll in. Two people nearly die after eating contaminated food from a local supermarket. The media is alerted, a national scare ensues and it's clear that if Charlie doesn't act fast he could be dealing with a murder enquiry.

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The sun is shining in Heckley, and the biggest case on DI Charlie Priest's books is a petty thief pinching underwear from the washing-lines of unsuspecting housewives. And the detective has another reason to be cheerful, his love life is on the up, in the form of local schoolteacher, Rosie Barraclough. But when someone starts tampering with food in the local supermarket and two people are hospitalised, Charlie must act fast to halt a media frenzy and prevent a murder. And as if that wasn't enough, intelligence soon reaches him that an organised dog-fighting ring has set up operations nearby. Charlie's relationship has reached a rocky patch too, Rosie has cooled considerably towards him and it seems she could be hiding something. When Charlie gets to the bottom of her change of heart he is somewhat concerned, but offers his help nonetheless. But, as he is about to learn, sometimes helping can only makes things worse...

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 433 KB
  • Print Length: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby (30 Jan 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0070D3RSC
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #23,574 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Plaudits for Pawson 19 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
The long-awaited eighth book in the DI Charlie Priest soap opera finds our hero still struggling to find a soul mate after his lamentable catalogue of failed relationships.
His latest target is the geology teacher from his night school class, Rosie, but when she finds out he’s a policeman, she doesn’t want to know anymore. Why?
Not that Charlie is a cop NYDP style. His current cases involve knickers stolen from clothes lines and food poisoning in a local supermarket. Hardly 89th Precinct stuff.
Furthermore, instead of spending every waking hour in a personal crusade against crime, he is more concerned about the minutia of everyday life like walking in the Fells and the scandalous price of CD’s.
It turns out Rosie’s father was hung for murder years ago and she is trying to prove he was innocent. Will Charlie be able to find out the truth and, if he does, will he dare reveal the answer to his would-be lover?
Charlie belongs to the Dixon rather than the Sweeney School of English policeman. Heartbeat for the 21st century. I even found myself compiling the soundtrack for the companion CD as I read it. White Stripes and Death Cab for Cutie figure prominently, after Dylan of course.
The Yorkshire setting has never been invoked so well since Gil North’s wonderful atmospheric Sergeant Cluff novels about Gunnershaw (aka Skipton), forty years ago. Pawson’s characters are totally believable and the plots neatly resolved.
If things don’t work out with Rosie, I fear Charlie will have to try computer dating. He doesn’t do lonely bachelor well.
If you haven’t read Stuart Pawson yet, you have a treat in store .His one-liners would fill a diary. (‘Miss Lewis’s underwear came under more scrutiny than the Turin Shroud’). Start with The Picasso Scam and read on.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Terrific read! 18 April 2004
Format:Hardcover
I strongly recommend this ninth outing of Detective Inspector Charlie Priest. Priest is involved in several inquiries, including food tampering at a large grocery store chain, illegal dog fighting, and knicker-nicking from backyard washlines. At the same time he is trying to romance his latest love interest, whose warning that she has "baggage" turns out to be a huge understatement. Priest's dry humor and witty observations make him an endearing character. For those of you unfamiliar with this fine series, the Charlie Priest novels are set in Yorkshire, where Pawson himself lives. The books can be read in any order, though it's fun to watch a character grow and change over time. Stuart Pawson is in top form in Limestone Cowboy.
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Format:Paperback
If you are new to Stuart Pawson's series of books about DI Charlie Priest you are in for a treat. Limestone Cowboy is full of Yorkshire humour but also is full of believable stories and characters that will make you smile then make you shudder at the darker elements of the human psyche.
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