The Beat: Smokescreen
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The Beat: Smokescreen
The 'Point' books increasingly have got the answer to most potential readers' needs. This one is a kind of Point Bill, with a sequence of police stories set in a Nottingham police station - crimes, ambition, love-lives and convictions. Well, it works on TV and the formula mostly works here, too, with Clare tracking down a dreadful arsonist. As with the 'Point Horror' titles, the plot tracks a range of suspects until, finally, we encounter the actual criminal -always a surprise. Now, will Clare continue to see Neil?
