Accidental P.I. Lexy Lomax is investigating a suspicious death in a decidedly spooky cottage. Kinky, her truculent chihuahua, hates the place, but he seems to be in a minority. She's hindered by her obnoxious ex, and a mysterious beast that dogs her footsteps. And dark forces are running amok. ""Hill's smashing sequal. . . improves on her well-received debut. . . Hill avoids the usual cozy clichs in this cracking good read."" -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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Starred Review. British author Hill's smashing sequel to Dead Woman's Shoes (2008) improves on her well-received debut. Lexy Lomax, the estranged trophy wife of wealthy but shady Gerard Warwicke-Holmes, is still lying low in the Suffolk village of Clopwolde-on-Sea, pretending to be a PI, when 16-year-old Rowana Paterson asks Lexy for help. Rowana fears a black magic ritual she performed to attract money killed her late mum's best friend, Elizabeth Cassall. Elizabeth, who appears to have accidentally fallen out of an upstairs window at her cottage, Four Winds, in nearby Freshing Hill six weeks earlier, has left Rowana £30,000 and the cottage. Lexy and her Chihuahua, Kinky, visit Four Winds, where she decides to stay after learning Gerard is lurking in Clopwolde. Meanwhile, the members of a local family, who want to buy Four Winds, are upset Rowana has inherited the cottage. Hill avoids the usual cozy clichés in this cracking good read. (Mar.)
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Lexy Lomax, née Alexandra Warwick-Holmes, is barely making ends meet in the Suffolk village of Clopwolde-on-Sea three months after leaving a bad marriage and becoming a private eye, even hoping to sell the pending litter of a rare breed of cat to pay her bills. So she takes the case of 16-year-old Rowana Paterson, who feels responsibile for the apparently accidental death of Elizabeth Cassall, a friend of her late mother’s. But Rowana, taking up the occult, had cast a spell for financial help the night before Cassall died, then learned she was the woman’s sole beneficiary. Lexy finds signs of secrecy and guilt in the behavior of the Gallimore men at the farm neighboring Cassall’s cottage, and Rowana’s financially strapped father also becomes suspect. Meanwhile, Lexy tries to avoid her estranged husband, who’s currently working nearby. Fortunately, Detective Inspector Bernard Milo is at hand to assist, as a host of secrets are sorted out. In this sequel to Dead Woman’s Shoes (2008), Hill again shows a winning way with whimsical mystery. --Michele Leber
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Lexy Lomax goes from strength to strength...,
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I loved the first book in this series, "Dead Woman's Shoes", and this second book doesn't disappoint. If you like a strong heroine, good supporting characters, mystery and humour - give this series a try. I can't wait for number three!The Fall Girl
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Lexy Lomax, working as a private detective out of her fisherman's cabin in the Suffolk, England village of Clopwolde-on-Sea, is hired by a 16-tear-old girl to investigate the recent death of a woman she'd never met. This strange request is, somewhat dubiously, explained by the fact that the girl, Rowana Paterson, is convinced that her attempt at witchcraft has produced fatal results. A fuller explanation deals with the dead woman having left to Rowana all her worldly goods, including her cottage in a place called Freshing Hill.
Thirty-year-old Lexy has literally escaped three months prior from her previous life as Alexandra Warwick-Holmes, the trophy wife of an antiques dealer of questionable morality, taking her [well, technically, her husband's] scarred, caramel-coloured Chihuahua, Kinky, with her While I must admit that generally books with paranormal/occult/four-footed beings are generally not in my comfort zone [understanding that YMMV], this author and her protagonist had me completely charmed very quickly. [The tiny animal has an important but non-speaking, non-detecting role. I must say, though, that I'm not sure what a Chihuahua's eyes look like when they "tighten."] Lexy's investigation at the dead woman's cottage, with the invaluable assistance of her friend, DI Bernard Milo, takes some suspenseful and unexpected turns, with a wholly satisfying resolution. A thoroughly delightful tale [the second in the series], the novel is recommended.
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I don't mean to rush the author, but I really hope the next one is on the way! I like this series!
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