Threats & Menaces

No one gets to the heart of a crime like Alan Scholefield. When his Macrae and Silver mystery series was introduced, Publishers Weekly said it was "crime writing at its best." The New York Times Book Review called it a "gritty crime study."
Here, the unlikely partners, Detective Superintendent George Macrae, a gruff, old-fashioned copper, and Detective Sergeant Leopold Silver, a suave, intellectual rookie, are called to investigate a series of burglaries in one of London's poshest neighborhoods. The seemingly routine case takes on a frightening dimension when they come across a battered body in an empty apartment - and discover that the only witness to this violent crime is a seven-year-old child.
Well-crafted and thoroughly entertaining, Threats & Menaces enthralls from its first page to its satisfying conclusion.