- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New edition edition (20 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340768959
- ISBN-13: 978-0340768952
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,578,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dido loads baby Ben and his toys into the van and drives down to rural Somerset to spend a couple of restful weeks with a cousin. Ally and her husband have moved there to keep an eye on his old parents who live in the local manor house where, four years ago, the family's youngest son shot and killed an intruder in the library. He is about to turn up after having served a term for manslaughter. And there are all sorts of chickens coming home to roost. The village turns out to be very different from St. Mary Mead (consider the drugs traffic in the village pub, for instance). And what on earth has happened to Peter Rabbit?
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Marianne Macdonald was born in Northern Ontario and raised in Winnipeg and Montreal until the age of twenty, when she went to Oxford to do graduate work For the next thirty years she followed an academic career, then gave up teaching to return to the writing she'd loved as a child, and to acting, which she'd also given up after university. She lives in Muswell Hill and her hobbies include photography, old movies, walking her very large dogs, travel, worrying about the socio-economic development of the contemporary world, and taking long hot baths when any of the above threatens to overwhelm her.
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...For Dido Hoare, antiquarian bookseller in North London, a rural village in Somerset sounds just the place for a little rest and recuperation from the strains of the recent past. So muses Dido as she drives with her son Ben down to Alford, at the invitation of her old friend Lizzie Waring, who telephoning out of the blue, claims she just wants to talk, so come and visit.
Three years before Lizzie had married into the Waring family, owners of the Georgian mansion Monksdanes. Whist it quickly becomes clear that the Waring family are living in straitened circumstances, darker secrets lurk in the faded but still elegant house.
What does Lizzie really know about the family into which she has married.
This is the fifth Dido Hoare mystery and it is the best to date. A true body in the library mystery, with many twists and turns that keep the reader guessing. All the ingredients of a good mystery are present, an accidental death but is it? A missing heirloom, or is it? A sleepy picturesque village, a peeping Tom....
At a recent Mystery Women event we discussed 'Murder in the Family' and how this particular aspect of murder can be more sinister and scary than a random serial killer murder, and how aptly Marianne MacDonald illustrates this in 'Blood Lies'...
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