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Investigative journalist Leonora Staveley retired to Exmoor twenty years ago. From an illustrious career travelling the world she has now become reclusive, preferring life alone with her animals in her cottage on the moors. Worried Sheila Mallory, an old friend, decides to check on her and discovers her ill, cold and living in circumstances that most people would describe as destitute, despite her wealth. Rushed to hospital, Leonora survives only a few days before dying of suspected e-coli, caught from her natural stream - her only water supply. Sheila soon discovers that some people are relieved at Leonora's death and this sets her mind to thoughts of murder. Was it Leonora's brother who wanted her cottage back in order to develop a leisure centre? Was it her neighbours, the Bamfilde brothers, who wanted a share of her stream? Or was it the strange young man seen camping nearby, shortly before her death? Hazel Holt gives Sheila Mallory full rein and looses her inquiring mind to try and solve the murder - if that is what it is. Easy to read, vaguely reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, it is an enjoyable gentle crime book set against the beautiful backdrop of Exmoor. - Lucy Watson
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It is twenty years since Leonora Staveley retired from her illustrious career as an investigative journalist to live as a virtual recluse on Exmoor, surrounded only by her beloved animals. With an increasing lack of concern for her own welfare and her house filled to the brim with the clutter and relics of an extraordinary life, no-one was too surprised when the elderly Leonora suffered a fatal bout of food poisoning. But Sheila Malory suspects something far more sinister was involved in the death of her friend. For there are a number of people, including Leonora's brother Vernon and her neighbours the Bamfilde brothers, who had good reason to want this wealthy lady out of the way once and for all. And aside from the obvious suspects, just who was the mysterious young man seen camping near Leonora's house just days before she died...?
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Investigative journalist Leonora Staveley retired to Exmoor twenty years ago. From an illustrious career travelling the world she has now become reclusive, preferring life alone with her animals in her cottage on the moors. Worried Sheila Mallory, an old friend, decides to check on her and discovers her ill, cold and living in circumstances that most people would describe as destitute, despite her wealth. Rushed to hospital, Leonora survives only a few days before dying of suspected e-coli, caught from her natural stream - her only water supply. Sheila soon discovers that some people are relieved at Leonora's death and this sets her mind to thoughts of murder. Was it Leonora's brother who wanted her cottage back in order to develop a leisure centre? Was it her neighbours, the Bamfilde brothers, who wanted a share of her stream? Or was it the strange young man seen camping nearby, shortly before her death? Hazel Holt gives Sheila Mallory full rein and looses her inquiring mind to try and solve the murder - if that is what it is. Easy to read, vaguely reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, it is an enjoyable gentle crime book set against the beautiful backdrop of Exmoor. - Lucy Watson
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It is twenty years since Leonora Staveley retired from her illustrious career as an investigative journalist to live as a virtual recluse on Exmoor, surrounded only by her beloved animals. With an increasing lack of concern for her own welfare and her house filled to the brim with the clutter and relics of an extraordinary life, no-one was too surprised when the elderly Leonora suffered a fatal bout of food poisoning. But Sheila Malory suspects something far more sinister was involved in the death of her friend. For there are a number of people, including Leonora's brother Vernon and her neighbours the Bamfilde brothers, who had good reason to want this wealthy lady out of the way once and for all. And aside from the obvious suspects, just who was the mysterious young man seen camping near Leonora's house just days before she died...?
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