It’s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe’s cousin Penn pays her a visit one summer Sunday. Not only does Penn want to renew contact with a relative not seen since childhood, but she is also looking for help with the disappearance of Justine, another cousin. Drew Slocombe’s reputation for unraveling such mysteries is widespread and Penn hopes he and Karen can be of assistance. Justine’s mother, Roman Millan, an avid beekeeper, claims to be unconcerned at her daughter’s disappearance. Roma’s husband, Laurie, however, believes otherwise, although he is not aware of the tangle of family secrets that led to a five-year estrangement between Roma and Justine.
The Sting of Death, . part of Drew Slocombe Series. Penn was staring in bewilderment at a figure at the top of the field. Is it some sort of ritual?’
The Sting of Death, . Is it some sort of ritual?’ ‘She’s zapping wasps, I think,’ Laurie explained mildly. There’s a nest of them close to her precious bees and they’re robbing the hive. It led to all-out warfare, and she goes up when she can to lend her support to the bees.
The Sting of Death has been added to your Cart. The protagonists from Rebecca Tope's two series come together in THE STING OF DEATH to solve a crime that leaves the policeman and the undertaker totally confused
The Sting of Death has been added to your Cart. The protagonists from Rebecca Tope's two series come together in THE STING OF DEATH to solve a crime that leaves the policeman and the undertaker totally confused. The Rentons are a strange couple with Sheena believing her daughter was at her mother in law's house and Phillip saying he had an affair with Justine who took Georgia with her when she went camping. They are very neglectful parents but the police cast their suspicions until mother Roma comes up with a brilliant way of getting at the truth. This is one of the best mysteries Ms. Tope has ever written.
One glorious summer's afternoon, Karen Slocombe is visited by her cousin Penn, who unexpectedly asks for husband Drew's help in tracking down a missing relative, Justine. But why has Penn come to him, and why is she reluctant to get the police involved? Justine's mother, Roma Millan, an avid beekeeper, is not interested in the whereabouts of her daughter, but husband Laurie senses a troubled history between mother and daughter. Detective Den Cooper joins Drew as the case takes a sinister turn when it is discovered that a small child is also missing.
She had always enjoyed looking for things, missing pens, magazines, equipment of all sorts. culousness to her character that made her habitually note where she left things, where she observed them lying as she went about her work. She had an excellent sense of direction, and a nose for people’s means of concealment.
The Sting of Death book. The sleuths from Rebecca Tope's two mystery series-Detective Sergeant Den Cooper and undertaker/amateur Detective Drew Slocombe-team up to solve a series of mysterious killings in the quiet rural area of East Devon where they both now live. It's a clever mystery set in a pictures-que English farm that is only pretty on the surface.
Part of the Drew Slocombe ( Series and Den Cooper ( Series). It s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe s cousin Penn pays her a visit one summer Sunday. Not only does Penn want to renew contact with a relative not seen since childhood, but she is also looking for help with the disappearance of Justine, another cousin. Drew Slocombe s reputation for unraveling such mysteries is widespread and Penn hopes he and Karen can be of assistance.
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Praise for A Death to Record : "Tope's return to Devonshire for a follow-up to A Dirty Death is every bit as good as the first. She creates a devastating portrait of one of England's distressed farming communities and manages to turn a sprawling farmyard crime scene into the absorbing equivalent of a locked-room mystery. An out-of-the-ordinary plot and an appealing cast of characters ensure this one a place on any shortlist of top rural mysteries.
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