The new novel featuring the delightful Ellie Quicke Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her husband's death and her newly-single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her: Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit; the builders working on her new conservatory; elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla; even dear Rose who needs Ellie's advice about her daughter's wedding. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing... Ellie is very fond of Tod, and his disappearance shocks her to the core. Before she knows it, she's caught up in a police investigation which casts a sinister shadow over her respectable, close-knit community...
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Veronica Heley (www.veronicaheley.com) has published more than fifty books, including crime fiction, historical, and children's titles. She is currently involved in the Ellie Quicke series of crime stories and a variety of other projects. A full-time writer, she has been married to a London probation officer since 1964, and has one musician daughter.
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Veronica Heley (www.veronicaheley.com) has published more than fifty books, including crime fiction, historical, and children's titles. She is currently involved in the Ellie Quicke series of crime stories and a variety of other projects. A full-time writer, she has been married to a London probation officer since 1964, and has one musician daughter.
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This review is from: Murder of Innocence (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #3) (Hardcover)
I read UK reviews of this series before I ordered. I like the heroine but it took me almost the whole book to get to that stage. I felt like I was reading the first in the series because she had no guts or courage, but this book is 3rd or 4th in the series. If I had read the first then I would have cast this aside knowing how objectionable all the charactgers, supposedly the heroine's friends, all were. Finally, Ellie gets some gumption and some guts and wins the day. She is appealing. I am hoping for better because I can see the possibilities. I enjoyed the style of writing and the final conclusion. This is definitely a British heroine (in her early 60s) with a village background. An American heroine would have been more brash and determined, and kicked the daughter up the butt by Chapter Two. Ellie will grow on you. I am willing to give this series one more try.
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