- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby (1 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749005149
- ISBN-13: 978-0749005146
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 846,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Well-paced mystery, with plenty of quirks and plot twists' Good Book Guide
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Drew Slocombe's reputation for unravelling mysteries id widespread - so when Karen Slocombe's cousin Penn pays the family a visit he isn't just catching up with long lost relatives.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Regretfully I found the plot in this novel quite ridiculous and the interaction of the characters unbelievable. However the author does keep the reader guessing until the end but I will not rush toread another of the series.
6 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Rebecca Tope is an excellent writer of crime fiction and this book is no exception. The characterisation is superb, the plot pacy and the ending satisfying. Full marks again to this fantastic author.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
superb mystery
28 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
Drew Slocombe is an undertaker who does natural burials behind his house which is situated on ten acres of land. He also has a local and national reputation as an amateur sleuth because he solved some murder investigations. Perhaps that is why his wife's cousin Penn comes to him when her cousin Justine Pereira turns up missing. Justine is living on Penn and Sheena's farm baby sitting their daughter Georgia in exchange for reduced rent and a barn to do her pottery.
Justine was supposed to meet Pen for lunch but never showed up and her search of Justine's house made her think that Justine left in a hurry. Pen becomes interested in the case and with his work assistant Maggs Beacon searches the house and finds enough evidence to report Justine's disappearance to Detective Sargent Pen Cooper. The plot thickens when Justine shows up at her mother Roma's house saying Pen kidnapped her and the body of Georgia is found in a ditch on the Renton farm. Penn disappears leaving everyone to wonder what was really going on at the Renton farm.
The protagonists from Rebecca Tope's two series come together in THE STING OF DEATH to solve a crime that leaves the policeman and the undertaker totally confused. The Rentons are a strange couple with Sheena believing her daughter was at her mother in law's house and Phillip saying he had an affair with Justine who took Georgia with her when she went camping. They are very neglectful parents but the police cast their suspicions until mother Roma comes up with a brilliant way of getting at the truth. This is one of the best mysteries Ms. Tope has ever written.
Harriet Klausner
Justine was supposed to meet Pen for lunch but never showed up and her search of Justine's house made her think that Justine left in a hurry. Pen becomes interested in the case and with his work assistant Maggs Beacon searches the house and finds enough evidence to report Justine's disappearance to Detective Sargent Pen Cooper. The plot thickens when Justine shows up at her mother Roma's house saying Pen kidnapped her and the body of Georgia is found in a ditch on the Renton farm. Penn disappears leaving everyone to wonder what was really going on at the Renton farm.
The protagonists from Rebecca Tope's two series come together in THE STING OF DEATH to solve a crime that leaves the policeman and the undertaker totally confused. The Rentons are a strange couple with Sheena believing her daughter was at her mother in law's house and Phillip saying he had an affair with Justine who took Georgia with her when she went camping. They are very neglectful parents but the police cast their suspicions until mother Roma comes up with a brilliant way of getting at the truth. This is one of the best mysteries Ms. Tope has ever written.
Harriet Klausner
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