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Karen Slocombe's cousin Penn pays her a visit one Sunday afternoon, seemingly out of the blue, on the pretext of renewing contact with a long-lost relative. However, this thinly veiled excuse is soon blown away as Penn quickly confesses her real reason for the visit. She needs help with the disappearance of another cousin, Justine, and has heard that Karen's husband Drew is something of a local amateur sleuth. Drew has misgivings about this latest case, but reluctantly agrees to help, enlisting the help of his gutsy sidekick Maggs. They soon discover that there is far more to this particular mystery than they ever could have imagined, as they rapidly become entangled in deep family secrets, betrayals, jealousies and fiery relationships. Things become further complicated when it is discovered that a three year-old girl is also missing - and that this is connected in ways which no one could have dreamt of. This is Rebecca Tope's sixth novel, and it has all the suspense and unexpected warmth of her previous work. Set in rural Devon, it reveals an England that is too often forgotten today, and this makes for a refreshing novel with multi-dimensional characters who play out their parts believably and effectively. This is a well-paced mystery, with plenty of quirks to keep the most demanding of readers interested and a few plot twists thrown in for good measure. Tope likes to keep us on our toes, and gives us little clues here and there, but never too much to give the game away - one of the many things which makes this a mystery novel which can't fail to satisfy fans of the genre. (Kirkus UK)
Drew Slocombe, proprietor of England's only naturopathic burial grounds, and his assistant Maggs outguess local copper Den Cooper in a case nobody seems particularly interested in. When Penn, a distant relative of Drew's wife, asks him to look into the disappearance of her cousin, it's unclear whether sly, troubled Justine did more than skip a lunch date. Her landlord, farmer Philip Renton, still devastated by losing his cattle to disease, insists she took Georgia, his three-year-old, camping. But that's not what his wife thinks. It's not what autocratic Roma Millan, the estranged mum who hasn't set eyes on Justine in five years, thinks. And it's certainly not what Penn, who's scampered to Bournemouth to solace Roma over the illness of Laurie, her second husband, thinks. Then Justine turns up, insisting Penn abducted her and she only narrowly escaped, and Roma finds Georgia's body on the Renton property. Cooper is less interested in sorting out who's lying than in quitting the force and canoodling with Maggs. And undertaker Drew is busy with two burials. Before Penn can explain her part in all this, she's murdered too. Soon more than one marriage is in trouble, two women are exposed as unsatisfactory mums, and just about everyone involved manifests as world-class dysfunctional. Inventive lies and complex relationships lift the plot above average, though few readers will accept the reasons Tope (A Death to Record, 2003, etc.) offers why her amateur sleuths should be involved in murder. (Kirkus Reviews)
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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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Karen Slocombe's cousin Penn pays her a visit one Sunday afternoon, seemingly out of the blue, on the pretext of renewing contact with a long-lost relative. However, this thinly veiled excuse is soon blown away as Penn quickly confesses her real reason for the visit. She needs help with the disappearance of another cousin, Justine, and has heard that Karen's husband Drew is something of a local amateur sleuth. Drew has misgivings about this latest case, but reluctantly agrees to help, enlisting the help of his gutsy sidekick Maggs. They soon discover that there is far more to this particular mystery than they ever could have imagined, as they rapidly become entangled in deep family secrets, betrayals, jealousies and fiery relationships. Things become further complicated when it is discovered that a three year-old girl is also missing - and that this is connected in ways which no one could have dreamt of. This is Rebecca Tope's sixth novel, and it has all the suspense and unexpected warmth of her previous work. Set in rural Devon, it reveals an England that is too often forgotten today, and this makes for a refreshing novel with multi-dimensional characters who play out their parts believably and effectively. This is a well-paced mystery, with plenty of quirks to keep the most demanding of readers interested and a few plot twists thrown in for good measure. Tope likes to keep us on our toes, and gives us little clues here and there, but never too much to give the game away - one of the many things which makes this a mystery novel which can't fail to satisfy fans of the genre. (Kirkus UK)
Drew Slocombe, proprietor of England's only naturopathic burial grounds, and his assistant Maggs outguess local copper Den Cooper in a case nobody seems particularly interested in. When Penn, a distant relative of Drew's wife, asks him to look into the disappearance of her cousin, it's unclear whether sly, troubled Justine did more than skip a lunch date. Her landlord, farmer Philip Renton, still devastated by losing his cattle to disease, insists she took Georgia, his three-year-old, camping. But that's not what his wife thinks. It's not what autocratic Roma Millan, the estranged mum who hasn't set eyes on Justine in five years, thinks. And it's certainly not what Penn, who's scampered to Bournemouth to solace Roma over the illness of Laurie, her second husband, thinks. Then Justine turns up, insisting Penn abducted her and she only narrowly escaped, and Roma finds Georgia's body on the Renton property. Cooper is less interested in sorting out who's lying than in quitting the force and canoodling with Maggs. And undertaker Drew is busy with two burials. Before Penn can explain her part in all this, she's murdered too. Soon more than one marriage is in trouble, two women are exposed as unsatisfactory mums, and just about everyone involved manifests as world-class dysfunctional. Inventive lies and complex relationships lift the plot above average, though few readers will accept the reasons Tope (A Death to Record, 2003, etc.) offers why her amateur sleuths should be involved in murder. (Kirkus Reviews)
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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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