Death Rope

I would like to thank Netgalley and Oldcastle Books for an advance copy of Death Rope, the eleventh novel in the Geraldine Steele series of police procedurals. Geraldine is slowly settling in at York but chafes at the lack of freedom to act that her demotion from inspector to sergeant entails. So whe......more

I've knocked a point off for having 2 pages of a dog being graphically abused in ch 6 - nobody needs to be reading that. Apart from that it was a reasonable book, although the killer was painfully obvious from about the halfway point. As usual from Russell, this is a quick read with very short chapt......more

Another police procedural featuring permanently unhappy Geraldine Steel, now in York and demoted to Detective Sergeant. An apparent suicide by hanging leads to suspicion in Steel’s mind.......more

An excellent police procedural thriller. This was the first I had read in an ongoing series featuring the recently demoted Geraldine Steel. Having previously been a DI in London and now a DS in York, life has changed dramatically for Geraldine. Geraldine clearly has a very sharp mind and instinct an......more

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Death Rope, the latest in the Geraldine Steel series. Mark Abbott was found hanging in his home, an apparent suicide, but his sister Amanda thinks not, and suspects he may have been murdered so that Mark's wife Charlotte may benefit. Detective Sergeant Steel has permissi......more