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Chargement... Secret Mischiefpar Robin Blake
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |   It all starts with a dead pig! April 1746, on a breezy April morning, Preston County Coroner Titus Gragg is called out to a neigboring village to investigate a murder. Much to his disgust the body turns out to be pig farmer Richard Giggleswick‘s prized animal! We have a boar assassination! The End! That however was never to be the end. The very next day Titus finds himself with Dr. Luke Fidelis journeying once more to Chimneystacks Farm to investigate the same farmer’s demise. Their discovery process takes them onto Liverpool to consult with Ambrose Parr, Farmer Giggleworth’s lawyer and man of business. A missing paper is alluded to by a frail, possibly demented mother More truth than fiction, this turns out to be a paper labelled Tontine Fund—whatever that might be? signed twenty years prior! Ah! and when they do realize what it is, the situation looks, as Fidelis says, ‘a ready-made list of people who may have shot Richard Giggleswick.’ As always it takes me a chapter or so to settle into the rytmn of a Cragg and Fiselis novel, but it’s not long before I’m wondering how things will play out—which they do—even if the pace is slower than I’d reckoned on. A Severn House (Canongate Books) ARC via NetGalley (  ) eyes.2c | May 4, 2021 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he finds himself drawn into a bizarre and complex case where nothing is as it first appears. As he questions those who knew the victim, it becomes clear that not everyone is telling him the whole truth.Could the motive for the murder lie in a dangerous contract the dead man had signed more than twenty years before, a so-called tontine agreement? Just what does the victim's enigmatic lawyer, Ambrose Parr, know that he's not revealing? As he and Dr Luke Fidelis attempt to track down the six other signatories to the contract, Titus realizes that if they do not find answers - and fast - more violent deaths will surely follow."--Publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-ÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.75)
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An enjoyable and well-written historical mystery, with some likeable characters. The book can easily be read as a standalone story.
An ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. (