Twelve-year-old Tammy Franklin has learned too much about death, too quickly. Two years ago she lost her mother to a long, lingering illness and now the body of the woman her father married in an attempt to replace his wife has been found on a railway embankment close to the Franklin farm. This time the death is murder.
As Superintendent Markby, one of the first on the scene, well knows, Tammy now stands to have her father taken from her, for Hugh Franklin is suspect number one in the mind of the inspector to whom Markby has delegated the case. But, despite his need to distance himself from the murder, Markby begins to realise that the truth is destined to be far more complex than he ever envisaged ...
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In common with her heroine, Ann Granger has worked in British embassies in various parts of the world. She met her husband, who was also working for the British Embassy, in Prague and together they received postings to places as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. They are now permanently based in Bicester, near Oxford.
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The mystery plot is sound and raised above the norm by the existence of plausible characters - including Meredith Mitchell and Alan Markby. There is no trick ending and the clues are there but not too easy.
The discriptive style used is clear and sets the scene well. The author uses her knowledge of the area to enhance the credibility of the fictional tale.
I would recommend reading the author's works in chronological order to develop an awareness of the relationship between Mitchell and Markby and their sleuthing methods.
The Fran Vardy novels by the same author are of similar calibre but are set in totally different area and social group.
Format:Paperback
I preferred some earlier Mitchell and Markby books to this one. The main characters have decided by now that they are not going to be passionate about each other - not that they ever were, the possibility would give a spark of interest though.
This is a light read like all Granger's books, no DNA, blood spatter patterns and trace analysis to worry about here, the police just question everyone over and over again. As they do. However one would expect that even in 1999 when it was published, the notion of the police getting a list of all phone calls would have occurred to the author. Or even the police asking the co-operative schoolteacher whether any kids in her class had a bag like the readily identifiable one described to them. That kind of omission just lets down the policework end of matters.
The story is that a city girl made redundant marries a farmer who was widowed with a twelve-year-old daughter, and less than a year later the new wife, who never settled, is found dead. She is left on a railway embankment and discovered there by a gypsy who camped with permission on the land. Markby the police senior officer is more desk-bound than before but still gets out and spends time in pubs, while Meredith Mitchell is still going to her Foreign Office desk job in London and poking her nose in for no very good reason to other people's tragedies. Young Tammy, the daughter, has a secret and some local men were interested in the dead woman who, bored, had decided to have a fling.
Unfortunately I never really take to Granger's style as she uses exclamation marks far too often, on just about every page when most of us use them once or twice a book. Sometimes she overloads a sentence, such as '"We don't pin things on people!" retaliated Pearce stiffly.... Read more ›
This is a light read like all Granger's books, no DNA, blood spatter patterns and trace analysis to worry about here, the police just question everyone over and over again. As they do. However one would expect that even in 1999 when it was published, the notion of the police getting a list of all phone calls would have occurred to the author. Or even the police asking the co-operative schoolteacher whether any kids in her class had a bag like the readily identifiable one described to them. That kind of omission just lets down the policework end of matters.
The story is that a city girl made redundant marries a farmer who was widowed with a twelve-year-old daughter, and less than a year later the new wife, who never settled, is found dead. She is left on a railway embankment and discovered there by a gypsy who camped with permission on the land. Markby the police senior officer is more desk-bound than before but still gets out and spends time in pubs, while Meredith Mitchell is still going to her Foreign Office desk job in London and poking her nose in for no very good reason to other people's tragedies. Young Tammy, the daughter, has a secret and some local men were interested in the dead woman who, bored, had decided to have a fling.
Unfortunately I never really take to Granger's style as she uses exclamation marks far too often, on just about every page when most of us use them once or twice a book. Sometimes she overloads a sentence, such as '"We don't pin things on people!" retaliated Pearce stiffly.... Read more ›
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Again the small market town of Bamford. Needless to say, another murder - this time the body of a farmer's flighty wife discovered on a railway embankment. Her husband, stolid Hugh Franklin, is the prime suspect. What now for the twelve year old daughter Tammy - she, outwardly so self-possessed, already with so much tragedy in her life?
In overall charge of the investigations, Superintendent Alan Markby yearns for the days he could be more out and about, less tied to a desk. His Foreign Office friend Meredith Mitchell (she still resisting his proposals of marriage) seems to have more scope intermingling with key figures and gleaning important information.
An intriguing mystery, many readers perhaps fearing early they have deduced the identity of the killer and hoping this is not so. Interesting characters - not least the sympathetically described Romany Smith family - mistrusted by many, but with higher standards than certain local folk.
An enjoyable light read. Just how long, though, to wait before Mitchell and Markby tie the knot!
In overall charge of the investigations, Superintendent Alan Markby yearns for the days he could be more out and about, less tied to a desk. His Foreign Office friend Meredith Mitchell (she still resisting his proposals of marriage) seems to have more scope intermingling with key figures and gleaning important information.
An intriguing mystery, many readers perhaps fearing early they have deduced the identity of the killer and hoping this is not so. Interesting characters - not least the sympathetically described Romany Smith family - mistrusted by many, but with higher standards than certain local folk.
An enjoyable light read. Just how long, though, to wait before Mitchell and Markby tie the knot!
By Mrs. RJ KING
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ann granger is a very good crime writer and the criminal goes to the wire.
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