The Estate

Sebastian Pallander, head of the large hedge fund company Pallander Glossop, dies while doing a television interview. When his family gather for the reading of the will some months later, they realise that most of the family fortune is missing. Then another member of the family dies and other family members are threatened.

Inspector Cara Salt, head the Succession, Inheritance and Executory (SIE) for Police Scotland in Glasgow, is surprised when she is asked to investigate but hopes that this investigation may help her to be taken more seriously in Police Scotland. DS Abernethy Blackstock is appointed as her assistant.

In The Estate by Denzil Meyrick the reader is taken on a tense journey as we follow the dangers encountered by family members and the progression of Cara's investigation. We also learn of events from the past in her police career with her former partner, Sorley MacLeod.

As with other books by Denzil Meyrick there is plenty of drama with many twists and turns as the author introduces an array of characters as the plot is revealed. There is also humour interspersed with the action. I suspect that we may meet Cara again in future novels.