Fatal Charm

Tessa Crichton #23

by Anne Morice

The multi-talented but contentious Deverell family gathers in London on their matriarch's eightieth birthday to find arrogant Eliza Deverell murdered and amateur sleuth Tessa Chricton on the case, in this mystery crossed with sound comedy

Genres: Mystery

187 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1989

About the author

Birth name: Felicity Shaw

Reviews

[Susan]

A brief appearance on a television show involves Tessa Crichton with the affairs of the famous Deverell theatrical family, especially when Eliza, daughter of the matriarch Deverell, appears from the distant South Seas island that she's been living on with her anthropologist husband. The initial verdict when Eliza dies is suicide, but there seems to be no motive for that. The more Tessa learns about the family, the more she realizes that their fatal charm may live up to its name.

[Helen Fleischer]

A mild, calming read but rather unsatisfying in the detection element.

[Elizabeth Cowan]

I don't even know if I got halfway through this- it was terrible