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This page lists novels that feature the policeman Detective Inspector John Bright.

 

John Bright: Novels

Close-Up on Death

Maureen O'Brien

Headline

1989

"The body of talented TV actress Liza Drew is found in an empty house in north London. Her family and friends are stunned. Liza had no enemies. Sent to investigate, Detective Inspector John Bright concentrates on the motives of the three people closest to her: her mother, her lover, Paul, and her best friend, Millie."
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Deadly Reflection

Maureen O'Brien

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1993

"Jen's a librarian at Kentish Town Library in North London. Her life's empty and when she meets Thomas, a beautiful, good, kind Dane whose wife has just left him she falls hook, line and sinker. Certain things disturb her – Thomas's secrecy about his family, the strange "wedding in the mirror" at his house in Epping Forest – but when Thomas wants to introduce her to his family in Denmark she doesn't hesitate. But her friends in Kentish Town get worried when John Bright reveals that the disappaearance of Thomas's wife is being treated as a suspicious death … The dreadful story climaxes in an ancient church on a clifftop overhanging the sea in a distant region of Denmark."
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Mask of Betrayal

Maureen O'Brien

Constable

1998

"By the time the woman's body is discovered in Kate Creech's bath it is beyond recognition - not surprising as Kate has been away on tour for seven weeks. Summoned back to London by Detective Inspector John Bright, Kate finds her home is a gruesome crime scene. She does not recognise the body, cannot guess why someone should have been using her house in her absence and has an unshakeable alibi. Perhaps she was the intended victim? John Bright suspects Kate is not being entirely open with the police and he is right. Kate has lent her keys far and wide and is fearful both victim and killer may be a part of her social circle. She goes on the run in an attempt to do her own detective work, but discovers Bright is always on her tail, even when she has gone down some very strange by-ways, discovering that it is not always clear who is the betrayer and who the betrayed."
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Dead Innocent

Maureen O'Brien

Constable

1999

"Police are searching today for a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared a week ago from her home in the Totterdown area of Bristol.' Actress Kate Creech hears the news with alarm - her niece, Maisie, is fifteen and lives in Totterdown ... When another girl's corpse is found in a local part the Bristol police suspect Maisie's dad, an odd character who gathers young people to him like a magnet. Even though Bristol is out of his jurisdiction, Detective Inspector John Bright can't stay away - Kate is there, rehearsing As You Like It, and he adores Maisie as though she were his own. Bright, off his own patch, resorts to his own unofficial methods of investigation, methods which unearth some uncomfortable facts and lead him to a sinister young man who is keeping a diary."
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Revenge

Maureen O'Brien

Little, Brown & Co

2001

"The last person to see Lee Han before his flat was torched had been Jude Craig, and she seems the likeliest suspect to the police. But they find no forensic evidence to link her to the fire and Inspector John Bright thinks her guilty demeanour merely means she is desperate to stop her husband learning about her affair with Lee. Bright turns his attention to Lee's professional life and discovers he had drafted an article about the murder of a witness in another case. It was a case Bright was in charge of and it still rankles that a heavyweight villain, Brennan, is still at large because of that murder. He learns one new fact from Lee's research - that the murder weapon had been removed from the scene by a police officer. Unable to trust his superiors yet determined to do everything by the book, Bright intuitively and methodically builds up the evidence."
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Unauthorised Departure

Maureen O'Brien

Little, Brown & Co

2003

"Nothing would persuade DI John Bright to go abroad. Not even the death threats he keeps getting. But they start to threaten Jude's life too, and when her ex-husband Dan reappears on the scene, Bright changes his mind and, to Jude's surprise and joy, they're off, driving down to the South of France on their first holiday together. The violent rape and death of a voluptuous young woman from the Jura hotel where they stop en route finds Bright not just a cop but also for the first time in his life a suspect. Though confined, and wildly frustrated by his lack of French, Bright fights his way to the truth. But will he ever be able to bring the perpetrator to justice?"
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Every Step You Take

Maureen O'Brien

Little, Brown & Co

2004

"George was a success. From a dull suburban upbringing he became a partner with a firm of accountants in the City. He married young, a relationship doomed from the outset and he was soon a singleton again, content with his bachelor flat in town. But the 21st Century has intruded on his professional life, merging his firm with a brasher variety and George finds the solid parameters of his life crumbling. Retreating to his childhood home where his mother cares for his retarded brother with efficiency but no compassion, George allows the sight of a young girl in his street and working at the local supermarket to obsess him. An obsession which makes his ungainly demeanour even stranger. John Bright, recovering from the death of his lover and with time on his hand, observes the odd behaviour of his old schoolfriend with alarm, especially when the body of a young blonde is discovered with horrific head wounds in a park where George has been seen."
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