Following the death of her husband in a suspicious auto accident, Tess Leland begins to receive threatening phone calls from a mysterious blackmailer. Reprint. PW. AB. NYT.
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British award-winner Gosling adds another taut tale to her series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbott, now in London. After Roger Leland, dies in a car crash, his American interior-designer wife, Tess, is beset by further troubles. Her home is burglarized; she receives unnerving silent phone calls. When her son Max comes down with rheumatic fever, she hires a widowed Cambridge scholar to tutor the boy in exchange for housing. Max's co-guardian opposes the plan even though Tess, whose phone caller has begun to demand money, expects to feel safer with a man in the house. Concurrently Detective Sergeant Tim Nightingale learns from the diary of a recently deceased retired politician that Roger's car was run off the road by a man who after the crash tried to pry open the trunk. Tim must convince Luke that the string of events are not merely coincidences. With stylish turns of phrase and special insights, Gosling tells an exciting tale that builds to a breathtaking finale in the London tube. Mystery Guild alternate.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
Detective Luke Abbott plays a minimal role in this new series title from another popular British writer. Temporarily working for Scotland Yard, Abbott finally backs up ambitious young Detective Sergeant Nightingale, who suspects a connection between the "accidental" death of an interior designer's husband and subsequent harassment of the woman. Fraught with foreboding, a brooding Victorian mansion, female insecurities, wild suspicions, and other Gothic underpinnings, the novel's plot waffles a bit but may appeal to series followers and those who appreciate a struggling-against-all-odds heroine.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful British mystery,
By Samantha Rayis (Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Penalties: A Luke Abbott Mystery (Hardcover)
This book is a continuation of a series that I love, Gosling's Luke Abbott series. The first book in the series, The Wychford Murders, is one of my favorites. It might be best to read that story first, as it gives a deeper feel for Abbott's personality.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Kind of bland.,
This review is from: Death Penalties: A Luke Abbott Mystery (Hardcover)
This is the first book I have read by this author, and it seemed kind of discombobulated. While trying to maintain some sort of steady storyline, it seemed the author wasn't content unless there was at least one stress point going at all times. Whether it was Tess trying to cope with her husband's death; dealing with strange phone calls about some supposedly missing money; trying to protect her son; or trying to cope with her job, new boarder, her housekeeper's brother, or a variety of other stressors, there was no resting point at all during this book and no neat coming together of facts with which to finish the story. Throughout the whole book, Tess Leland was constantly on the edge, nerves frazzled, ready for the tiniest little push to put her over the edge. It was almost as if somebody took a jigsaw puzzle, threw it into the air (where it hovered for a while) and then at the end dropped to the floor with every piece in place. That was the way this story read.
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