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|title=Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs

|author=H R F Keating

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=264

|publisher=Allison & Busby

|isbn=978-0749080303

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Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens is driving home with her husband after a boring duty lunch when she finds their car trapped in an anti-hunting demonstration. To make matters worse the speaker is pro-hunting and rotten eggs are being hurled at him. One egg looks rather different to the rest and it explodes close to Robert Roughouse, leaving him badly injured. Who would want to kill the anti-protestor and who are the friends who spirit him away from the local hospital early the following morning? Why is he in a private hospital which seems more able to treat addiction in the famous and wealthy than physical injuries? And just why is it almost impossible to get to speak to the victim?

If you enjoy this type of book then you might also like Ian Rankin's [[The Naming of the Dead]] which looks at a murder investigation set against a background of protests and terrorist attacks.

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