Web of Deceit

Katherine Howell

Pan Macmillan, 2013 - Australian - 348 pages

When paramedics Jane and Alex encounter a man refusing to get out of his crashed car with bystanders saying he deliberately drove into a pole, it looks like a desperate cry for help. His frantic claim that someone is out to get him adds to their thinking that he is delusional. Later that day he is found dead under a train in what might be a suicide, but Jane is no longer so sure: she remembers the raw terror in his eyes.Detective Ella Marconi shares Jane's doubts, which are only compounded when the case becomes increasingly tangled. The victim's boss tries to commit suicide when being questioned, a witness flees their attempt to interview her, and then to confuse matters further, a woman is beaten unconscious in front of Jane's house and Alex's daughter goes missing.Ella is at a loss to know how all these clues add up, and feels the investigation is being held back by her budget-focused boss. Then, just when she thinks she's closing in on the right person, a shocking turn of events puts more people in danger and might just see the killer slip through her hands.

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Web of Deceit: An Ella Marconi Mystery

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Australian author Howell (Frantic) makes her U.S. debut with her excellent sixth mystery in her series starring Sydney police detectives Ella Marconi and her partner, Murray Shakespeare. Ella and ...

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - smik - LibraryThing

WEB OF DECEIT follows the same structure as Howell's earlier novels in the series: police investigations running in parallel with paramedics whose callout allows the reader to see another side of a ...

About the author

Katherine Howell is a former paramedic. Her award-winning and critically acclaimed Detective Ella Marconi series is published in multiple countries and languages. She lives in Queensland with her partner. The seventh Marconi book, Deserving Death, will be released in February 2014. www.katherinehowell.com

Bibliographic information

• Title: Web of Deceit; Volume 6 of Ella Marconi, Katherine Howell
• Author: Katherine Howell
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 2013
• ISBN: 1742610307, 9781742610306
• Length: 348 pages