On a spree to finish off the Warwick series and since the entire novel goes like an episode or a season of a drama series, posting the review of "Hidden in plain sight" , "Turn a blind eye" and "Over my dead body" as a combined one.
The series follow a set template with William Warwick, getting introduced with a promotion to next level and being moved from one squad to another. If he was in Artefacts and rare paintings squad in the previous one, and then goes undercover to expose the black sheep in police department to Drugs division. His team of officers remain the same and they tag along with him, under the leadership of Hawksby. Alongside the regular recurring foe of Miles Faulkner, there is another villain in this book, Rashidi, who happens to be the drug kingpin. How William and team manage to arrest him, only to find him escape by the barest of loop hole made possible by Booth Watson, the knight in not so shining armour who appears as the defense counsel of every villain in the story. A new character Ross Hogan, finds his footing in this book, who grows into more prominence in the rest of the series. There is a black sheep in the police force, who makes the team stumble at the final hurdle in booking the bad guys, who eventually gets suspended, but continues on into other books in the series. Miles Faulkner dies "mysteriously" in the end and the supposed twist is so plain that it was never convincing, only for him to turn up as a naval captain, having undergone plastic surgery to change his looks, remarrying (or almost remarried) his wife to prove his alibi, only to be found out by the shrewd police officer Warwick. How he manages to run across Europe to thwart their attempts to capture him, resulting in the death of Ross Hogan's wife, which sets a chain of events in motion, resulting in either capture or death of several villainous elements, eventually culminating in the arrest of Miles forms the whole of "Over my dead body" story. The next in line, aptly titled "Next in line" has an interesting start with Princess Diana, visiting the police museum and the impending trial of Miles Faulkner hanging heavily on everyone's head. Guess that book may require a separate post as its bit lengthy and also feels slightly different from the previous books. More to come soon.
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