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When Meredith Mitchell agreed to stay with her actress cousin Eve in the run-up to Eve's daughter's wedding she anticipated a degree of drama. But she hardly expected it to include murder, blackmail and unrequited love. Or to involve a certain Chief Inspector Markby, a middle-aged divorcee with an emotional history as unfortunate as her own.
A material witness to the only case of murder the Cotswold village of Westerfield has ever seen, Meredith also finds herself acting as mother-confessor to the bride-to-be, who is clearly not telling the whole truth about her involvement with the dead man. Steering a path between her duty to the police and loyalty to her cousin's family is not easy; even for someone with Meredith's considerable diplomatic skills. And especially as her personal enquiries into events in Westerfield start to disinter past affections Meredith would far rather leave buried - and to provoke new ones she's not at all sure she can cope with ...
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Ann Granger has lived in cities all over the world, since for many years she worked for the Foreign Office and received postings to British embassies as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. She is married, with two sons, and she and her husband, who also worked for the Foreign Office, are now permanently based in Oxfordshire.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This novel is the excellent start of the Markby/Meredith double act. The unpleasant twists and turns on, what should have been, a happy occasion keep the reader guessing 'til the end. The meeting between Alan Markby and Meredith is not the 'wine and roses' of romantic novels, more a clash of personalities. Brilliant in its conception, kept me thoroughly enthralled.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This is the first book in the Michell and Markby series and sets the scene for their relationship. The writing moves at just the right pace with a good balance between description and action. Once you've read this you'll be buying the rest!
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This is the first in a series involving Meredith Mitchell, who left England some years previously to escape from a failed relationship, and Chief Inspector Markby, a fairly gloomy policeman who lacks purpose in his life outside his job. Having said that, there's really not that much involvement going on in this story, but I imagine that changes as the series of books goes on. I have yet to discover that, but will definitely be reading more of the series.
In this book, Meredith comes back to England to attend her god-daughter's wedding; daughter of her cousin Eve, an actress who may have passed her career peak, and who has three failed marriages behind her. Eve and Meredith are fairly "chalk and cheese" but family has its bonds, and Meredith is determined to do the right thing by the family and by Sara, her god-daughter. Unfortunately, Sara's fiance is not all that Meredith could desire; and the village in which Eve and Sara are living seems, to Meredith's thinking, "soulless". What more could go wrong? Well, quite a lot actually - murder, intrigue and mystery don't take long to arrive to upset the fragile calm of the village, and Meredith finds herself, somewhat unwillingly, helping CI Markby in the unravelling of some fairly unsavoury home village truths.
This is a really good novel; the characters, the story itself, and the pace rattle along really well - I was engrossed from beginning to end. I liked the characters of Meredith and Markby - both strong-minded and independent characters who have their own lives, and who slowly start to find a glimmer of liking for each other.
Thoroughly recommended to anyone looking for a good English whodunnit, or a novel with just a really good story to keep the reader intrigued and interested to the last page.
In this book, Meredith comes back to England to attend her god-daughter's wedding; daughter of her cousin Eve, an actress who may have passed her career peak, and who has three failed marriages behind her. Eve and Meredith are fairly "chalk and cheese" but family has its bonds, and Meredith is determined to do the right thing by the family and by Sara, her god-daughter. Unfortunately, Sara's fiance is not all that Meredith could desire; and the village in which Eve and Sara are living seems, to Meredith's thinking, "soulless". What more could go wrong? Well, quite a lot actually - murder, intrigue and mystery don't take long to arrive to upset the fragile calm of the village, and Meredith finds herself, somewhat unwillingly, helping CI Markby in the unravelling of some fairly unsavoury home village truths.
This is a really good novel; the characters, the story itself, and the pace rattle along really well - I was engrossed from beginning to end. I liked the characters of Meredith and Markby - both strong-minded and independent characters who have their own lives, and who slowly start to find a glimmer of liking for each other.
Thoroughly recommended to anyone looking for a good English whodunnit, or a novel with just a really good story to keep the reader intrigued and interested to the last page.
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