Richard Jury Mysteries Old Contemptibles, Book 11, (Paperback)

from delphimo

Martha Grimes draws a reader into her story in the first chapter. Richard Jury meets a new woman and hopelessly falls in love with Jane Holdsworth and plans to ask Jane to marry him. Tragedy befalls and Jane dies from a drug overdose. Is this suicide or murder? Martha Grimes entertains with the w...

from Kathy89

The woman that Richard Jury is dating is found murdered and he is a suspect and suspended for awhile from the force. He gets his friend Melrose Plant to go to the her in-laws estate as an undercover librarian to help with the investigation.

from davevanl

A typical Martha Grimes cast (Jury, Plant, Trueblood, Wiggins, Vivian, etc) but with Jury playing a key, but largely off-stage, role. A murder mystery where the murderer is allegedly found, but never caught, and sentences, but never tried.

from jetangen4571

Agnosco vestigia flamea, from the Aeneid, I perceive the vestiges of an old flame. Jury goes brain dead over a seriously troubled woman and winds up in deep grief and on suspect list! Melrose Plant goes undercover and finds a weird family with too many suicides in recent memory. Great tale! This ...

from phoenixcomet

Quite possibly my favorite Richard Jury novel to date. Superintendent Jury gets himself involved with Jane Holdsworth. Two weeks later, she commits suicide. But was it really? Her son, whom she loved dearly, doesn't think so. Jury is suspended from service as a suspect and so Melrose Plant goes u...