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Clemmie Colshannon has retreated home to Cornwall, England, after a disastrous relationship and a trip around the world. Her loving and quirky family makes life interesting, what with her theatrical mother and the family pets, which include a recuperating seagull, but Clemmie realizes that she must get on with her life and find a real job. When her reporter sister, Holly, first met in Playing James [BKL My 1 04], decides that she must come to Bristol, Clemmie ends up involved in Holly's latest story. Emma, the society reporter, disappeared a week before her secret wedding, and through good intentions, the two sisters have inadvertently put Emma in possible danger. The whole Colshannon family takes on the case and heads to the south of France, where Clemmie starts to understand that love is sometimes right under your nose. A fun follow-up to Mason's first romance, this tale unites her distinctly amusing wit and sense of the absurd with the uniquely British talent for entertaining understatement. Patty Engelmann
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Product Description
Heiress Missing: The Untold Story.
Clemmie Colshannon, a London art appraiser framed (pun intended) by her boyfriend and subsequently fired, retreats to the bosom of her eccentric family in Cornwall to recover. But no sooner has she unpacked her bags than her sister, Holly, an energetic reporter who lives to scoop, enlists Clemmie’s derring-do on a juicy story.
It seems that Emma McKellan, who writes the society pages for the Bristol Gazette, has disappeared days before her lavish wedding. As Holly and Clemmie search for clues on the missing bride (relishing the prospect of delicious scandal), they inadvertently steer themselves directly toward trouble.
In times of crisis, the Colshannon clan is always in the thick of things–particularly Clemmie’s drama-queen mother, who has an affinity for saving wild animals, and her brother, who goes to outrageous extremes to impress a certain girl and succeeds only in terrifying her. Whether she likes it or not, Clemmie always seems to find herself in the throes of adventure. And sure enough, the whole family is soon fleeing to the south of France . . . with an ex-convict in hot pursuit.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Clemmie Colshannon, a London art appraiser framed (pun intended) by her boyfriend and subsequently fired, retreats to the bosom of her eccentric family in Cornwall to recover. But no sooner has she unpacked her bags than her sister, Holly, an energetic reporter who lives to scoop, enlists Clemmie’s derring-do on a juicy story.
It seems that Emma McKellan, who writes the society pages for the Bristol Gazette, has disappeared days before her lavish wedding. As Holly and Clemmie search for clues on the missing bride (relishing the prospect of delicious scandal), they inadvertently steer themselves directly toward trouble.
In times of crisis, the Colshannon clan is always in the thick of things–particularly Clemmie’s drama-queen mother, who has an affinity for saving wild animals, and her brother, who goes to outrageous extremes to impress a certain girl and succeeds only in terrifying her. Whether she likes it or not, Clemmie always seems to find herself in the throes of adventure. And sure enough, the whole family is soon fleeing to the south of France . . . with an ex-convict in hot pursuit.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
