DEAD MAN'S SHOES
by Richard Hunt
Dead Man’s Shoes ($25.00; Jun.; 224 pp.; 0-7278-2255-1): When a man makes his living by dispensing tough love to ailing companies, as Brian Labinsky does, there are bound to be a flock of suspects when he’s killed. But Chief Inspector Sidney Walsh (Murder Benign, 1996, etc.) and his hard-working crew are still taken aback when Gordon Grimston, whose wife had been the latest victim of Labinsky’s scroched-earth tactics, proves a cast-iron alibi for the hit-and-run assault to which his Land Rover was obviously an accessory.