The Verge Practice: A Kathy and Brock Mystery
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ISBN: 1559707135 / Publisher: Arcade Publishing, July 2004
Months after a celebrated architect disappears, leaving behind a dead wife and a pregnant daughter, Detective Chief Inspector Brock pursues leads in scenic Barcelona, the British countryside, and their native London, uncovering suspicious clues that point to corruption and international rivals. By the author of The Marx Sisters. 10,000 first printing.
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In The Verge Practice, Kathy Kolla and David Brock, Scotland Yard's superlative detective duo, take on a puzzling case in the posh world of big-name international architecture, and it's got them chasing red herrings and hopping fences from London to Barcelona.Charles Verge, a powerful, cutting-edge architect, has disappeared into the blue, leaving behind his firm, his beloved, and pregnant, daughter... and his young and very dead wife. The case is stalled, and, after months of fruitless searching leaves the authorities desperate to save face, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called in.All of London is abuzz with questions about the high-profile case, which will send Kathy and Brock to some less than scenic locales in Barcelona, and back to their own stomping ground - where a suspicion of internal corruption comes much closer to home than they would like. As the investigation begins to uncover a dizzying web of possible suspects, including an ex-con gardener, a sinister doctor, and the missing Verge himself, it will reveal more than one crack in the shiny windows of the Verge practice's sleek facade.
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