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Straight and Level by Haines, Penelope Ann

ISBN: 9780473398200 PUBLISHER: Ithaca Publications FORMAT: Paperback

PUBLICATION DATE: 15.06.2017 DIMENSIONS: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.63 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: "Straight and Level", the sequel to "Death on D'Urville," sees pilot Claire Hardcastle involved in another adventure. Her partner, Jack, has been sent on secondment for a month to the Solomon's and Claire plans to use the time he's away to settle down to her studies, observe Dry July and think about the direction in which their passionate relationship is heading. If only life were that simple! The night Claire meets newly arrived property developer Jim Mason is also the night she has a chance conversation with investigative journalist Andrew Camborne, who's been researching reports of crime and corruption on the Kapiti Coast. A short time later, Claire is witness to an altercation between the two men. The next morning, Andrew's dead body is found on a Paraparaumu Street. Is the cause of death accident, or homicide? Claire's just taken on Jim's teenage daughter, Melody, as a flying student, so she desperately hopes Andrew's death is accidental, but rumours are circulating that suggest Jim and his company might be central to an upsurge of crime and corruption occurring in Kapiti. Informers have reported 'something new' planned by the local gangs, and police are anxious to discover what this is. Claire and her aircraft are recruited to help the police with surveillance work. Unfortunately, aircraft, and the pilots who fly them, are easily identifiable, and Claire is vulnerable. A particularly vicious attempt to intimidate he

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