Kindle Notes & Highlights
“She told me that she’s my long-lost aunt. My mother’s youngest sister.”
‘the precious ordinary’; the blessin’ of borin’, routine days—that we don’t appreciate at all—until they’re suddenly taken away, and then we’d do anythin’, just to have them back again.”
tainted-medication case
A batch of common medication that was used for chronic pain had been tainted with fentanyl, and within a day, ten people living in London had died from an overdose—Nigel Howard, Mary’s husband, being the most prominent of the victims. Howard was an MP, and had tragically collapsed, even as he was enacting business at the Parliament building.
When did this happen? At the end of the last book Howard was alive. When did this tainted medicine case happen? Do they not understand what is really happening? Savoie killed him. I don’t know how or is he killed all of the other people too.
Callie was adopted, and had recently discovered that her birth mother was Melinda Clarence, an aristocratic woman from an estate that neighbored Acton’s. In a strange twist of fate, it turned out that Acton’s father had also been her father, so that Acton and Callie were half-siblings.
He realized that there had already been one attempt to eliminate the husband, and so—to ward-off any further such attempts—he’d encouraged an alliance with his half-sister, who was willing, because she already admired the man.
This had a two-fold purpose; to send a warning that he knew what was intended, and, at the same time, to offer an acceptable compromise.
Acton sicked Callie his half sister on Savoie. When did Callie learn she was his half sister? Why did it anger Savoie? Why did Savoie go ahead with the Howard murder and how? And when and where in what book did all of this happen? Am I missing a short story or something? Last book Callie talked to Savoie. Melinda had not told her about she being her mother and Nigel Howard was alive. Murdered in Material Gain saw Melinda marry a priest and inherit his trust fund to spite Acton’s mother and cousin. This is so convoluted. It’s like a soap opera and murder mystery combined. But like other readers I’m hooked.
Graveyard-love was the term the police used for someone who’d rather murder the object of his or her affections than see them walk out the door.
My false aunt must be an attempt by the blacklegs to gain immunity—immunity from the hellfire that’s about to rain down upon their heads.
she was the one who told the authorities about the tainted batch of medication, at New View Pharmacy. She worked there.” She paused, a bit sadly. “She was employee of the year.”
“And the clincher is that her daughter seems to have been some sort of whistleblower, in the tainted-medication case.”
“There is a connection between the two cases, Thomas. Nigel Howard was one of the victims, in the tainted-medication case, and he was the laboring-oar on the Public Accounts case. He—he was one of the MPs overseein’ the Committee, and he was the one who figured out that gobs of money were goin’ missin’.”
Blakney,”
Mary’s first husband and Gemma’s dad.
