Since the death of their mother in a hit-and-run accident, Violet and Jane have been living with their great-grandfather Luke Grant and his partner Helena. One evening Violet’s boyfriend goes missing and is finally found badly injured and unconscious. The police investigation follows the suspects to the island of Madeira and uncovers a bizarre and unscrupulous scam . . .
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Octogenarian photographer Luke Grant has adopted his great-granddaughters, Jane and Violet, after the tragic death of their parents. Now that the girls are in their teens, the inevitable “boy problems” are starting to crop up. Violet has fallen for a local boy, Roddy McWilliams, and when he fails to show up for a dinner date, Violet is at first annoyed but then fearful that something’s happened to him. Her fear is well justified—Roddy has fallen down a disused well, and it’s only due to Jane’s quick thinking that he’s found. After a bit of investigation, it becomes clear that his fall was no accident. Luke, with the help of local police inspector Ian Fellowes, eventually uncovers a bizarre series of events that leads from the local youth club to an unscrupulous trio of baddies who are running a dangerous scam on the island of Madeira. A slightly different take on the standard British cozy, Hammond’s latest is pleasantly entertaining, cleverly plotted, and nicely written. --Emily Melton
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John Skelton was an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII. Gerald Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Fleeting Things and The Making of the English Bible, and the editor of Selected Poems: Richard Lovelace.
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