The Red Queen

A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury from bestselling author Martha Grimes still “one of the most fascinating mystery writers today” ( Houston Chronicle ) One calm night in Twickenham a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life – from his widow Alice to the staff at his manor to his business partner had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile Wiggins Jury’s partner at New Scotland Yard becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister missing for years and presumed dead has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in