Murder on the Oxford Canal

Written by Faith Martin

Narrated by Gemma Dawson

Meet DI Hillary Greene, a police woman fighting to save her career.

Not only has she lost her husband, but his actions have put her under investigation for corruption.

Then a bashed and broken body is found floating in the Oxford Canal. It looks like the victim fell off a boat, but Hillary is not so sure. Her investigation exposes a dark background to the death.

Can Hillary clear her name and get to the bottom of a fiendish conspiracy on the water?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781977376060

Reviews for Murder on the Oxford Canal

[MLJS-piano · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I have a few standards that a murder mystery has to pass... the writing & characters have to engage & entice, without making me stay up till 3 am, frantic to find the killer. There can be no gratuitous creepy violence, especially against women / girls/ children. So this book was a winner for me! Loved the reader's voice, too. A great way to spend my commute. I'm hooked, & looking fwd to the next book!

[Mari Melting · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

First published in 2004 this book has not aged very well. The in office romances are really eye rolling and the mystery was only adequate. I will read the next book because I have read later books by this author and have enjoyed the character developments.

[vesper1931 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

DI Hillary Greene due to the illegal activities of her dead police officer husband Ronnie, is under investigation to determine if she had any involvement in his activities.
But when a suspicious death is reported - a body in the local canal - she is assigned this low key case. But what does it lead to.
Previously published as A Narrow Escape this is a good start for this well-written series, with its various characters. It will interesting to see how they develop over the series.
Received an Advanced Reader Copy

[occasionally_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Hillary solved the case of who murdered Pittman whose body was found in a canal lock. She also figured out why. She solved it in spite of obstacles which were thrown at her, primarily from coworkers. There was a subplot and a couple sub-subplots. But everything turned out okay.Goodby.

[jetangen4571 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

law-enforcement, procedural, international-crime-and-mystery, interpersonal-problems, detective, england Police work is mostly the same the world over (except for terminology) and especially Internal Affairs investigations. The good detective is still getting screwed over by her divorced and dead police crook husband because the filth need to be sure that she wasn't working with him (particularly since they never knew about his 10 year involvement in International crime). The good and bad about cops and their interpersonal problems is well depicted, and the mystery (not just the murder) investigation is worth reading and paying for.

[kaulsu · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Not bad for a first book. Many pages spent in developing ancillary characters. Not exactly “humorous” but lots of smiles. I’ve just ordered the second in the series.

[pgchuis · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Hillary Greene investigates the death of a man who apparently fell from a narrow boat into the Oxford Canal. At the same time, she is being investigated by the Police Complaints Authority to see if she was involved with her late estranged husband's corruption. I liked this story, which I found well-written and well-plotted. The other police officers were fully rounded characters and the descriptions of life on a narrow boat make me determined never to try it.Slightly detracting from an otherwise enjoyable read was the way the female police officers were constantly described in terms of their appearance and attractiveness and/or attraction to the male officers.