Alison Hope wonders whether her charwoman's husband, a burglar recently released from prison, strangled his son's pregnant fiance+a7e, or whether the son did it himself, after she and Nick stumble upon the dead woman in an English country lane. Reprint.
Susan B. Kelley was born in the Chilterns and grew up in Oxford. After reading French and English at London University, she worked as a freelance computer programmer for many years. She is now a full-time writer and lives in West London with her solicitor husband and cat.
She is the creator of: 1. 'Alison Hope and Nick Trevellyan', a businesswoman and a Detective Inspector. 2. 'Gregory Summers', Superintendent of the Newbury police force.
I got this book at a second-hand shop with the full intention of reading it and ditching it during a trip abroad. I was hoping for something pithy, engaging, and racy that would be a page-turner but was disappointed. For 90p, I got what I paid for.
The book was pretty boring until the last third. There wasn’t much of a big twist at the end. There were too many characters that didn’t get fully established so I kept forgetting who was who, even in the last couple chapters.