Police Procedurals

I have been keeping up with my reading, just stuck on the police procedural by English authors, the latest being Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes. She has the knack of writing literary mysteries, an unusual accomplishment. Her main character, Richard Jury, the single Superintendent of Scotland Yard manages to throw in Greek characters and comparisons that go over the head of most of his companions, and mine too. This was a good mystery, it included the setting of an old English home snowed in for Christmas with a houseful of guests and a body found in the snow. The story had all the makings of an Agatha Christie mystery, only this was 1982 not 1932. Most of Martha Grimes novels are named after pubs in England and this was no different, Jerusalen Inn was within skiing distance to the home where the characters gathered for questioning, a good read.