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

by Stuart Pawson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (1 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749083603
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749083601
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,048 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Highly recommended" Crime Time "Excellent, Charlie Priest is a sort of Yorkshire Inspector Morse, and a likeable hero' Yorkshire Post "A true master" Good Book Guide"


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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Plaudits for Pawson, 20 Nov 2003
By Mr Ronald W. Ellis (Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Limestone Cowboy (A Detective Inspector Charlie Priest Mystery): A DI Charlie Priest Mystery (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:
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific read!, 18 April 2004
This review is from: Limestone Cowboy (A Detective Inspector Charlie Priest Mystery): A DI Charlie Priest Mystery (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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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Novel in the DI Charlie Priest Series, 8 Sep 2007
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Stuart Pawson had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He lives in the village of Fairburn, in Yorkshire only about four or five miles from where I live myself. A place I regularly visit to look at the bird sanctuary there with all the water birds and a welcome pint in the Bay Horse.

DI Charlie Priest is good at his job and he knows it. A typical Yorkshireman in his thinking. while things are quiet on the job fron the finally has time to concentrate on his love life. But his new girlfriend is keeping a secret from him . . .

Stuart Pawson writes a good detective story, straightforward down to earth, gritty and extremely readable. None of the frills or sensationalism that may crime writers like to employ in their books. Just a good, well thought out plot and believable characters.
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