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Blood on the Wood (Paperback)

by Gillian Linscott (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; paperback / softback edition (4 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751533998
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751533996
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 776,176 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Linscott writes like a rewarding angel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Just the right mix of period detail, character psychology and suspense' EXPRESS


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The suffragette movement has been left the bequest of a valuable painting and, with much grumbling, Nell Bray agrees to collect it. The widower of their benefactress, Oliver Venn, lives with his nephews in a beautiful house in the Cotswolds filled with priceless antiques and objets d'art. But when Nell takes the canvas to Christie's she is told it is a copy, so with outrage and impatience she has to return to the Venn household. One of the nephews, who has just bizarrely jilted his fiancee in favour of a peasant fiddler to save her from poverty, suggests she steal the genuine painting. Somewhat against her better judgement, Nell agrees to the plan, finding that Daniel Venn has fulfilled his part of the bargain by leaving the house open. What he didn't warn her about was that the body of his new bride-to-be would be concealed in his uncle's study. Nell's distrust of the police and her insatiable curiosity forces her to undertake her own investigation into the killing. And she does succeed where the police have failed, but not before the finger of suspicion is laid on more than one wrong person, and someone else falls victim to the real killer.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for the historical mystery lover, 25 Feb 2004
By Larry Gandle (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood on the Wood (Paperback)
Nell Bray, a suffragette living in England in the early 1900s, is asked to retrieve a painting left to the suffragette movement in the will of Philomena Venn. She travels to the Cotswolds to pick it up at the late woman's estate. However, her husband refuses to part with it and gives Nell (unbeknownst to her) a copy. Nell returns to actually steal the real painting but unfortunately gets entwined into murder.
Ms. Linscott cleverly uses the device of the painting to get Nell Bray to the English countryside where she helps solve a murder among the country gentry. Along the way, the reader is treated to a panoramic vista of the unspoiled landscape while meeting enough eccentric characters to make the trip worthwhile. Actually this is an excellent example of a book that cries out for a glossary at the beginning of the book listing the main characters and suspects. However, the author does play fair and the solution quite clever enough. This is well recommended for the cozy historical mystery lover.
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