Missing Letters: Featuring Inspector Walter Darriteau (Inspector Walter Darriteau cases Book 16)
by David CarterPublish: Jul 17, 2025Crime FictionBook Overview
Pamela Grayson stays late on a warm summer Friday evening. A bookkeeper, employed in a struggling business, her boss needs new figures for the accountant and bank manager. Pam is happy to oblige, the only one remaining in the office.Figures massaged and bullied into the best order, she sets them on the boss’s desk, and leaves the building to drive to her Chester apartment by the burbling river.
On the thirty-minute trip, she doesn’t consider cop cars and bikes and radar traps, thinking instead of her estranged boyfriend and his plans for the weekend. Breaking the speed limit is not unusual for Pam, and that evening, she is lucky.
Arriving home, relieved to slip off her work shoes, she debates on hot drink or cold. In the cool flat, she doesn’t yet know she isn’t alone.
So begins “Missing Letters”, the sixteenth case in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series.
Walter is going to be busy, but not on police work, for he has left the country, accompanying his friend Marina Moo to Hong Kong. She is divorcing and needs a confidant to see her through.
He has no idea what is happening in England. He has more important things on his mind, events that will change his life forever.
“Missing Letters”, another chunky Walter Darriteau book running to over 450 pages.
“Missing Letters”, embracing three continents, and ninety years of turbulent British and family history, and available to order now.
