Book review: Archer excels with latest in new detective series

Hidden in Plain Sight

Author: Jeffrey Archer

St. Martin’s Press, 295 pages, $28.99

London detective William Warwick is back in Jeffrey Archer’s latest police procedural thriller. The star of “Nothing Ventured” is now a sergeant and has been reassigned to the Drugs Squad on a team that is attempting to fight the scourge by going after the top dealers.

Joining him is his soon-to-be-wife, Beth, his sister Grace and his father, Sir Julian, both solicitors, and less-than-straight financier and old nemesis Miles Faulkner and his soon-to-be-divorced-wife, Christina.

The new adventure begins a little slow, with the introductions of the new players and preparations leading up to the wedding, no thanks to Faulkner. But it soon heats up with the team getting down to lots of street-level police work trying to put nails in Faulkner’s coffin and laying out some elaborate plans to nab one of the most-elusive drug dealers in the city.

“Hidden in Plain Sight” is classic Archer that his fans will eat up. And the abrupt cliff-hanger ending assures they will soon have another course.

C.F. Foster lives in Riverside.