The Fennister affair

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

BELL, Josephine

Mystery

Hodder&Stoughton

A hydra with six heads (King crime)

Hodder and Stoughton

A hole in the ground (King crime)

Rose Lawler was a retired schoolmistress but, fortunately for her on at least two occasions, still in very good shape. The charter tour of Italy which was meant to be so easy and relaxing turned out quite otherwise. For the English party were being used as cover for Gwen Chilton, luckless tool of a criminal, and it was soon being shadowed by another character whose motives were dubious. Rose's wide sympathies and alertness brought her under suspicion of knowing too much.

A pigeon among the cats

The Lawrences were newcomers to the town. Nobody knew much about them. Old Mr Lawrence was seventy and had had a stroke which deprived him of his powers of speech, and he was being looked after by his daughter-in-law. This much Lucy Summers was aware of when she went round to the house for her first appointment as his physiotherapist. What she was not prepared for was the shock of seeing the old man sitting in his wheelchair in the garden desperately trying to steal the crusts off the bird-table with his good hand.Is old Mr Lawrence simply senile? Or is he being systematically starved to death by his neat and civil daughter-in-law? You don't get a straight answer to a question like that, so Lucy enlists the aid of Geoff Harris, one of the local GPs. He has a word with the district nurse, and the local Social Services are deployed under the wilfully independent generalship of Mrs Chandler, who finds young Mrs Lawrence such a nice client.And then there's a regrettable holiday accident and the questions the town finds to ask about the Lawrence family are only just beginning . . .br>Josephine Bell is a past-master at the art of conveying something evil nurturing itself behind, and indeed on, the bureaucratic routine of her small town life, as Health Service talks to Social Service and local vicar's wife speculates to local estate agent's wife and local newspaper man snuffs the air. The result is a deadly tale in this popular author's most sharply observant vein."Miss Bell's cool, clinical style is a delight." Sunday Times

Such a nice client

An intelligent, skilfully plotted crime novel. Handsome, charming and clever Simon Fawcett is also mean, elusive and strange.  He is also permanently in love with a married woman.When Penolope Dane falls in love with him, the triangle set.  But a triangle of blackmail, murder and madness is also set.

The Hunter And The Trapped (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

Ulverscroft

No Escape (Black Dagger Crime)

John Curley & Assoc

Chivers North America

<p>When Mrs Forrestal and her daughter Eileen inherit a gloomy old house the only thing out of place is an old family heirloom and a roundabout made of china.Many people seem unnaturally interested in its whereabouts - and then a murder is committed. With a foreword by Basil Copper.</p>

The China Roundabout

Black Dagger Crime

The Fennister Affair

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Chivers Press Ltd

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