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She sighed.
‘But, well … Well, I suppose it’s really all to do with the new ACC.’
‘The Assistant Chief Constable (Crime), chap at the head of the CID?’
‘As you ought to know by this time. Right, the fact is the man’s doing nothing but make life difficult for me.’
‘But you used to get on very well with his predecessor, didn’t you?’
‘I did. I certainly did. Which only increases my feeling that this man is deliberately picking on me. I think he got it into his head at the start that I’m not the detective I used to be. He’d been told about the terrorist bomb that killed Graham, and simply decided I’d still be affected. But that dull weight has gone. Gone altogether. You know it has. I am not what I was in the months after that happened.’ …
‘You don’t know him, John. You don’t. He’s a typical example of someone who’s risen up the ranks by sticking firmly to the regulations and the rules, as if he’s climbing some sort of rope-ladder. And in the end he’s got to a place that’s simply too high for him. Oh, I know that as a graduate entrant myself, I’d be accused of being an intellectual snob if I said this to anyone but you. Yes it’s true. I tell you, the ACC, stuck there above, is pigheaded from the neck up.’
‘All right, that does happens, but–‘
‘No. It’s the prospect of working under him all the way to my retirement date that’s made me seriously contemplate just now turning the job in. So there’s your answer.’
from: Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs
A Hard Woman
Harriet Martens is a detective aiming at a career in the police organization – and she is a woman. About somewhat more than twenty years ago when she fully active in police work a woman isn’t accepted by her colleagues as she should. Therefore Harriet breaks her back to succeed.
Well … the novels start when she is a Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) and finally she is a Detective Superintendent … It’s a hard way she has to master to arrive at this position. She’s been successful, however, is she happy?
The few lines above show that she starts thinking about her job and her future – will she be able to continue until retirement? Is the new ACC (Assistant Chief Commissioner) another obstacle she has to overcome, to whom she has to prove her abilities?
Besides this tiring daily fight for appreciation Harriet has a private life. She is married and has to deal with her husband – the marriage is still going and she loves her husband when she decides to quit. Once there has been a love affair when Harriet fells for a colleague head over heels – the affair stops when Harriert realizes that there is no future for both of them. She also has got two sons who become victims of a crime. So her private life is sometimes stressful and devastating as well as tumultuous.
So having in the background the fight for acceptance in a men’s world and a challenging private life Harriet has to deal with some interesting and extraordinary cases i. e. murder cases. She learns a lot about revenge taken by a confused soul, about the secret lives of politicians and their special ambitions, about terroristic strikes … She becomes a target for the press as well as for somer killers.
All her cases are complex and need thorough investigation to solve the crime and identify the culprit. Harriet is the leading figure of a team trying to unearth any trace possible. She decides about the course and the importance of any evidence – and she has got a gut feeling for the right way although she almost always has to deal with collegues seeming to know a better solution.