A MESSAGE FROM DAVID HODGES

Detective Inspector Kate Lewis (nee Hamblin)

DI Lewis is an attractive, very modern woman, now in her thirties, with blue eyes, long auburn hair and lots of freckles, who is married to another police officer, named Hayden. Known to be dynamic and tenacious, with a strong sense of justice, she is also stubborn and impulsive, with a tendency towards disobedience to orders and speaking her mind if she believes a particular course of action is right. This has earned her the nicknames, Go It Alone and Maverick Kate, often upsetting the hierarchy of the force and getting her into hot water with her senior managers.  Very sexy and prone to using colourful language, she takes no prisoners and is a force to be reckoned with.

Police Constable Hayden Lewis

Hayden Lewis, Kate’s husband, was once a police detective with Kate on CID, but is now the police station’s local intelligence officer. A notoriously untidy man with rumpled, stained clothes and down-at-heel shoes, he is a big, some would say fat, ponderous individual, also in his thirties, with blue eyes and an unruly thatch of blond hair, which has rarely seen a comb. A very clever, former private school graduate, majoring in history and philosophy, his key interests are his red Mk II Jaguar car, the classic car club he belongs to and food, which dominates his every thought. Old-fashioned with an intense aversion to bad language, especially when used by his wife, he is also pompous, lazy and suffers from a condition bordering on geniophobia, which drives sexy Kate to distraction. But he is intensely loyal and has a keen, logical mind which often acts as a brake on Kate’s impulsive behaviour.

In short, Kate and Hayden are chalk and cheese, constantly ‘warring’ with each other, but deep down, are totally committed to each other.  

Brain Teasers.

In which of the last 7 Levels crime novels (8 – 14) were the following comments made by one of the two key characters and which one made them, Kate or Hayden?

1. Not doing a Don Quixote again, are you? You know, tilting at windmills?

2. Andy Warhol did say everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

3. Cutting edge stuff yet again from the ace gumshoe.

4. To plagiarise George Orwell’s Animal Farm, all the people are suspects, but some are more suspect than others.

5. And what sort of artist is that? Piss artist?

6. You’re not suggesting she reached out for him from beyond the grave?

7. In flagrante delicto.

Answers (1=H, 2=K, 3=H, 4=K, 5=K, 6=H, 7=H)